How to be successful in career and motherhood at the same time

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In our country, it is often believed that it is impossible to be successful both in career and in motherhood, but many women prove that this is not the case. The editor of "Netology" tells how to combine both, and follow your own path.

The most frequent problem of Russian, and not only women, is simple and the thought that now you can only be a housewife. In this case, often worries about the house, the child, the husband overlap everything else, and after a few years it turns out that some age has already come up, they don't wait at work, you don't look very good either, and it would be time to change something. … And how to change it is not clear. And a woman simply gives birth to a second, and sometimes a third, in order to realize in a few years that as a professional she did not take place.

Of course, children will love their mother in any case, but … they experience much greater respect and love when they are proud. Everyone wants their mother to be the most beautiful, intelligent, successful, and not only show attention, affection, care and go with bags at the ready. Let's see if it is possible to be a successful woman and mother. And if so, how.

What to do if there is no work

As they reason: “I gave birth, and now I have no job. On the old one they don't expect me from the decree, and I won't be able to sit in the office from 9 to 18, since the child must be taken from the kindergarten, taken to the circle. Therefore, I will not work."

Wrong conclusion. First, you need to look for a socially-oriented company that has a normal attitude towards having children, sometimes allows you to work remotely, and also leave work early on the condition that all work duties are completed.

Secondly, you can find a job that allows you to work remotely on freelance. This is any of the digital professions. Copywriter, internet marketer, content manager, seo or smm specialist. If you are a designer, build editor, developer or layout designer, then this is even easier. There is a lot of work and employers allow the employee to work remotely, because the main thing is quality, and the fulfillment of duties is much more important.

How to get back to work

The situation is completely different if you decide to return to your old job. First, make sure that you are really expected there, and second, clarify whether they are really ready to "tolerate" hospital or early departures from the office. Third, decide if you can take some of the work home so you don't lose productivity and efficiency.

These questions should be raised at least because you are a mom in the first place. And all the same, in the second - the employee. It's great if you manage to keep both roles on par. However, this is still not always the case: children get sick, kindergartens sometimes do not work as long as we would like, transport is late, and circles do not wait.

How to change profession and find a calling

Another story, if your old job and profession is completely impossible to combine with motherhood. Or you just want to change your field of activity, or, perhaps, you cannot find a job in your specialty with your requirements. There are various situations in which you want to change your profession.

We advise you to look towards digital specialties. Firstly, they all imply the possibility of remote work, or some of the duties can be performed at home. And more often than not, companies that are looking for employees are highly socially oriented.

First, choose who to be: go into marketing - content, smm, seo, targeting, analytics or be a broad-based specialist, do web design, interface design or development - front-end (site appearance) or back-end (site internal structure). To do this:

• study the labor market, most often these are specialties with a salary of 40 to 180 thousand rubles.
• see which profession is closer to your abilities and skills. If you know how to sell and promote - an internet marketer will do, write - a copywriter or content manager, understand the logic and mathematics - go to development. If you are doing well with psychology and analysis, then your choice is smm, seo, target or analytics. Know how to draw - then the world of design and interface design awaits you.
• find out what the requirements for a vacancy are, if you do not have enough competencies, then you should definitely go to online courses: they are inexpensive, quickly pay off, the training period is up to 2 months, at the end a state diploma is issued.
• choose courses with state accreditation, diploma, well-known in the market, as well as those with their own Career Center and helping with employment. In addition, make sure that the course has practice on real projects.
• after completing the courses, they will help you with your career or advise you on how to write a resume and where to look for work.

These are the courses Netology creates: the university of Internet professions. We teach and graduate real specialists with proven practice on real projects and help our graduates find employment. Who do we release? Internet marketers, web analysts, smm managers and SEO and contextual advertising specialists, targetologists and copywriters, email marketers and content managers. We teach web and UX designers, as well as programming.

So, you graduated from the courses, found a new job in a socially-oriented company: remotely or with the possibility of partially remote work. How can we not forget about motherhood now? The child also needs attention.

Okay, what about motherhood

When you want to go to school or work, the question often arises: when will you be a mother?

When my child was born, it became clear: I want to be a beautiful and successful mother, whom I can be proud of. And to have respect, to be in demand and realized is also nice. But how to keep up with everything?

First, a calm mother who feels good is important for a child. If self-realization is important to you, then it is definitely better to find a job. Secondly, money is never superfluous, so several tens of thousands of rubles will obviously go to the benefit of the family budget and the child - there is no need to save anymore, and you can afford to buy what you could not before. Thirdly, it is much more pleasant when a child is proud of his mother.

So motherhood is not going anywhere. You will clearly not forget to take your child to a kindergarten or school and pick up from there. As well as it is difficult to deny him a game or evening leisure time before bed. And after you put it down, it is quite possible to do household chores, or what they did not have time to do at work, because they left early.

So, what to do if you want to be both a mother and a professional

How to keep up with both? The most important thing is competent time management. Make a rule for yourself to use a diary or special applications: calendars or notebooks. Write what you will be doing today and what you need to do.

In second place: priorities. Mark things that are important and not so important - those that can be postponed. If the most important thing for you is to take your child to the competition, then try to finish the work early, do the hardest first, and postpone the easier things until tomorrow or evening.

Remember: children are asleep and they have a routine. Don't be fooled by them and put them to bed on time. In this case, while they sleep, you have time to do business: work or household. In addition, children are very fond of helping. Wash the dishes or the floor together, disassemble the dirty and clean laundry, start the wash, or hang up what has already been washed. So the house will be clean, and you will teach the child, and spend time together.

Fourth rule: be calm. Children are not fools, and you can say: "Mom will work for an hour now, and then we will play with you, but for now watch a cartoon or read a book." Your peace of mind guarantees the child's appropriate behavior. If patience and adequacy prevail in your family, then there will be no problems.

Good luck

Author: Ksenia Suvorova,

editor of "Netology" and mother

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