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By Swati Bharteey

Swati Bharteey has been a single working mother since 2003. She has twenty years of work experience in management consulting, and as a senior executive in corporate America. In January of 2009, Swati was due to move into a new role at her company, but decided to pursue her dream of writing a book about single working moms. Swati is forty-one and her little goose is eight.

Work at Home, Work Outside the Home?When Does the Quandary End?

Posted on August 04, 2010

Maybe when I retire? Maybe.

Just to recap, I left my glamorous corporate job in January of 2009 to pursue my dream of writing a book (The Single Mothers Chronicles).

And I’ve been cranking away with interviews from single moms and multiple re-writes of the book - and loving it (except when writer’s block hits - then I am beating my head against the wall and hating it…but in a still-really-do-love-it sort of way).

Well a funny thing happened to me about a month ago. Without too much thought, planning, or strategizing, I pulled out my resume and worked on it. Then I wrote up a bio. And a week later I was sending both documents out to former co-workers and friends saying I was planning to consult part-time and write part-time.

Some said they were surprised. Some said good for you. And thank goodness some said they had opportunities for me.

Now that my flurry of new activity is slowing a bit, I think I’ve figured out what the heck is going on. I know I want to continue writing, but I miss that sense of accomplishment and achievement I had when working outside my home…just to recap, I have been writing for two years and I AM NOT DONE! For a goal-oriented person, that’s murder, no matter how happy you are to follow your dreams.

Do you ever do stuff like this? Act before you really know why? Do tell….

Here I go again!

:~)

- Swati