Building a Career from Home
Building a Career from Home
It is interesting to hear a statement delivered in one of Oprah Winfrey’s talk shownya first. He did not distinguish her profession as “working mother” and “housewife” but he distinguishes as “mothers who work outside the home” with “mothers who work at home”. He said a woman called “housewife” rather than women who do not have a job. They are the women who underwent the option to work at home. Parenting, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning the house, all of it is also an important work. Oprah, as a successful career woman, also expresses appreciation to mothers who work at home by stating that it is often mothers who work at home has a heavier workload than mothers who work outside the home. Even they do not have a definite break in the day and must always be alert to work 24 hours at home.
I found myself nodding vigorously when he heard the Oprah statement. I just realized the weight to be a mother who worked at home when I had nearly a month of my choice to undergo this. Options that I took after going through the various considerations as I have written here
In addition to child care at home, cooking, and cleaning the house, I actually did some work at home. I started sending my writings to various print media. I also just got a new responsibility for managing an educational newsletter for teachers in an institution. In addition, I also began to build a network of community social services for women through the internet. I was so excited about starting these jobs because the world of writing, education, and also women’s ministry is my passion. I’ve imagined how wonderful my life could take care of children at home while doing those jobs.
Beautiful shadow seemed to be blurred collide with reality. My son is 17 months old are in a period very actively. He should be frequently monitored carefully before doing many things that can harm him. In addition, he usually also have a great interest to help me when she saw I was typing on a laptop. In the spirit of play he will join her tiny fingers on the laptop keyboard, creating some chaos that is enough to make me hysterical. So, I could not touch the laptop when he was still awake.
The quietest time for me to write when my son was sleeping. Not nap time but when she sleeps at night. When he naps often I use to clean house or cook. When he sleeps at night sometimes I even dragged down with him for the adventure to the land of dreams. That means a day elapsed without a single word I typed in the document. Apparently it’s not easy to build a career from home. Time and concentration must be divided by several things.