Being a Working Mother
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Being a Working Mother
Women, with kids and a husband, have more that one full time job. Along with working to help pay bills, we also have grocery shopping, laundry to keep up, cooking, and making sure the children and husbands stay healthy and get a lot of loving care.
According to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey of 594 mothers who work at least 40 hours a week, only 71 percent of them don't feel they have had to sacrifice job advancement as a result of motherhood, 55 percent of the working mothers spend three to six hours after working with their children and 53 percent spend one hour or less before work with their children. (Business Week, 2003)
I am a working mother with two children still in school and I am also going back to school one night a week to get my degree in Business Administration. Every morning, I get up at three-thirty and I go to bed around ten o'clock at night, sometimes I can't make it past nine o'clock. My son 16 and a daughter 15 attend the same high school, which make it a lot easier when trying to get them back and forth to school. My husband travels sometime two or three times a week. He helps out a lot around the house. He helps with laundry, and some times will try his hand at cooking, with his limited cooking skills, but after 17 years he is getting better...