Motherhood’s career lifespan is as short as the career lifespan of a professional footballer.
A friend said to me, “E, Motherhood is a short-term career of at most 20 years, what are you going to do with the rest of your time, when your children grow up? What are you going to do when you are an empty-nester”
I have thought hard and fast at this before I made the switch to being a stay-at-home-mom.
I look around me… there are so many needs in our community and our world
My nieces and nephews… they can use my time
The children from dysfunctional families… longing for their parents to be there in their lives…
The children from poor families… wishing for their parents to have a day of rest to bring them out, but that day rarely comes…
The children from divorced families… longing for their parents’ undivided attention…
The children from the orphanages… yearning to know a mother’s love…
The grand-children from our own children eventually 😊
Motherhood seen from that perspective is a long long career, and not an easy one. But the training I get from my own children and home does help, I hope.
But motherhood is an unpaid career. It will run out when the money runs out to be a stay-at-home-mom 😊
And the question is how many years I can devote to being a stay-at-home-mom before the fulfillment of the corporate world lures me back.
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