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Do you ever find yourself dreaming of changing your life but worry what others will think if you do? Or maybe you think it would be selfish or irresponsible as a mom to do so. Does this guilt and fear of judgment keep you in a job or situation that is no longer working for you? If so, then it’s time to kick it to the curb once and for all and let yourself know you’re not a bad mom for feeling like this, for wanting to make change in your life.
A post in a mom online forum recently caught my attention. A mom had left work a number of times during the first week of school when they called to emotional and health concerns relating to her daughter.
Some of her coworkers were not too happy. They reported her to upper management and stated she needed to keep the personal out of her work life.
Are you feeling stuck in a cycle of overwhelm, stress and exhaustion trying to juggle your many responsibilities of work, being a mom and of well just life.
Does your family rely on your income making you feel like you are trapped in your job with no way out?
If you’re answering yes to either of these questions you are not alone. I talk to so many women who are going through their Passion Shift that are feeling this way.
Imagine an ENTIRE conference dedicated to serving individuals who are reentering the workforce. Imagine an ENTIRE conference focused on issues that pertain SOLELY to renetering the workforce. Imagine an ENTIRE conference geared towards making these people SUCCESSFUL!
How much information do you consume daily? The range of consumption is quite wide, because more information than ever is freely available -- and free in both senses. Not only does the information spread at will, but it also costs people nothing, beyond the cost of an internet connection, to consume. That might sound like some golden ideal, but there is a downside to the amount of available information. It's easy to get lost in it and lose focus on what is truly important.
Many women are under the assumption (fasley) that they have to take a pay cut when they return to work - JUST because they have been out of the workforce.
Not true.
Want to return to work AND get paid? Then remember this: a job is worth what a job is worth. And if you can do the job the same as the next person, you shouldn't get paid less just because you haven't been working.
It was back in 2008 that I found myself, at the age of 47—a published writer, former spokesperson for TV and radio, once well-known in my field—mopping up splattered spaghetti sauce from the kitchen floor and catching watermelon pop-ups, while two small children took their best shot at killing each other from across the kitchen table.
As far as the business world was concerned, I’d hopped a flying egg-beater to Outer Mongolia and was forgotten with crushing ease and rapidity.
What had happened to my life?
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