On how I got employed again! :D :D

It’s very easy to give up. When you have been looking for a work-from-home, flexihours job, for as long as I had been looking. Anything I could do, as and when I got time, something that I would enjoy doing and thrive. Especially, after having worked for almost two decades, joblessness can make you feel insignificant and completely useless. But, in spite of all my education and experience, I have been sitting at home, tending to DD and the house, for some 5 odd years now. As much as I love to do both of these things, I get at least 6 to 8hrs a day, when she’s away, or asleep, and I am completely idle. Since my interest lays in writing, I have been applying for all the WFH, flexihours writing jobs all this time. While, I did get quite a few writing assignments, they would either be on topics that I can’t relate with at all, like a religious website, where I was required to write about temples of India. Or they would be from fields where I had to research for 8hrs, for a 100 rupee job. Or in spite of having finished an assignment and doing it well, I would not get paid at all. How well we all know, how difficult it is for women to build and sustain their careers, how not agreeing to travel for work, or the long hours at the office are frowned upon, and how rarely any decent company agrees to offer flexihour opportunities at all. But alas, that has been my only option, given the nuclear family, with a traveling and ‘long hours at the office every day’ partner. People advised on Day Care Centers, which would not work, if my kid was sick, or on the Day Care Center’s holidays. People suggested leaving the kid home, with a full-time nanny. But that’s the thing, with all due respect to all women who pick this option, I have always wanted to be a mum. So much so, that it was my career goal, ever since I can remember. Now if I don’t even get to see my child growing up and sharing everything with her and just being around her- till she doesn’t want me to anymore- what’s the point of having had her! Yes, I am greedy. And yes, I do want it all. I want to be with my daughter all the time, and make money. Both, yes. Then, the other day, I get a call from my sister, who asks me to ‘fix’ a few product descriptions for their website. Which, I did, without realizing that I had just submitted samples for, what turned into a job application. Apparently her boss liked how I had written them so much that I started all the content jobs from her office. After a couple of months of writing for them, as soon as I added that into my resume on the various job portals, I started getting real and interesting offers immediately. The best possible future job offers, so far, have been for blogging and writing articles. How I have always wished to be able to write professionally. Can’t thank my stars enough for making this possible. So, watch this space now, for some professional blogging as well…hopefully. S m i l e