| Being a mother and wife can be the most fulfilling | | | | and sales skills, to name a few. |
| career choice in the world. However, one of the | | | | Secondly, get creative, think outside the box. Expect to |
| common limitations is often not being able to pursue a | | | | get paid for your talents and skills and establish |
| well paying career in the workplace. Sometimes | | | | independence through earning your own money. What |
| women also feel guilty for wanting more than the | | | | value can you offer with your talents, interests and |
| responsibilities and fulfillment of raising children. It is a full | | | | skills? Start looking for ways to sell a product or |
| time job if you want to do it properly and if you want | | | | service. Focus your thoughts and efforts only on all the |
| to work as well you have to pay someone else to | | | | ways you can offer value to people. What can you |
| help with mothering duties. But as a mother you can | | | | offer and who can benefit from it? When you value |
| also find yourself longing for the independence and | | | | yourself and acknowledge what you have to offer, |
| earning power to give yourself and your children a | | | | people will value you too and pay for your product or |
| better quality of life. How is this all possible? | | | | service. |
| Firstly, do not give into feeling guilty, acknowledge the | | | | Thirdly, think about who you can enlist to help and |
| valuable transferable skills mothering equips you with. | | | | support you. As you start to help yourself, you will find |
| Recognise that it is your right to have children and | | | | that people will help you too if you expect it. Mothers |
| pursue a career. Just because mothering is unpaid and | | | | often only think about helping everyone else, you |
| there are no promotions up the corporate ladder does | | | | deserve help and support too. Your motivation is that |
| not mean that you have not developed very valuable | | | | you are doing even more for your children by adding |
| managerial skills as a mother like expert | | | | to your care as a mother through establishing financial |
| communication and time management, supervising, | | | | independence in the world. This will give you means |
| successful project management, conflict resolution, | | | | and provide them with a positive and powerful |
| reward schemes, rules and codes of conduct, public | | | | example. |
| relations, standards of excellent, product development | | | | |