I had a chat with my new friend this afternoon and I was surprised when she told me that she worked as an engineer before getting married and giving up her career to take care of her children and start a home based business.
What surprised me is that while I know there are people giving up their careers for family, here is an engineer who spent a few years at university and worked and giving up her title as an "engineer" to be a homemaker.
Normally, people who give up their jobs are people who have worked long and hard at a dead end position and don't see any progress and have no home of advancing in their careers so they would rather stay home to spend time with the children instead of hiring a nanny to take care of them.
In Malaysia, there are still people who do not recognise the business of working from home and more often than not, she is telling people and filling up forms as a homemaker.
If you were a professional, only worked a couple of years, or slightly more, would you give up your job, a career that you know you have a chance to climb up, to stay home with the family and working by your lonesome self?
What surprised me is that while I know there are people giving up their careers for family, here is an engineer who spent a few years at university and worked and giving up her title as an "engineer" to be a homemaker.
Normally, people who give up their jobs are people who have worked long and hard at a dead end position and don't see any progress and have no home of advancing in their careers so they would rather stay home to spend time with the children instead of hiring a nanny to take care of them.
In Malaysia, there are still people who do not recognise the business of working from home and more often than not, she is telling people and filling up forms as a homemaker.
If you were a professional, only worked a couple of years, or slightly more, would you give up your job, a career that you know you have a chance to climb up, to stay home with the family and working by your lonesome self?
2 comments:
depending of the type of work, working at home with family members as companions may not be lonesome after all. Family comes first, no?
Hi!
Thanks for your feedback. Family can be a big distraction!
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