Mastering the double burden of family and career
Balancing child and career is a major challenge. Many women shy away from the additional burden. Here we give you some helpful tips on how to easily find your way back into work despite having a child.
Back to work despite having a child?
Women often find it difficult to return to work through their child. There are many reasons for this. Some women cannot or do not want to part with their child, others cannot find suitable and affordable childcare, and still others do not dare to shoulder the double burden of family and career.
But there are many reasons why women want or have to go back to work after the birth of a child. Either yourparental leavehas expired, the ceiling at home falls on your head or you want to do something for yourself again. Or maybe you have to go back to work because you desperately need the extra money. Don’t forget: when you go back to work, you have the same rights and obligations as any other employee.
Are you ready to re-enter the professional world? We have summarized the most important information for a successful re-entry:
Combining work and child as a mother – is that possible?
Being a good mother and still working? That can’t work, many say. But it can do that very well. If your child is taken care of and the father or other helping hands at home lend a hand, you can very well reconcile work and family. But you always have to keep in mind that you can only go to work relaxed if your child is optimally cared for. In the following, we have summarized some points that you should consider when returning to the professional world:
- Educate yourself: If you have not been in your professional life for one or more years and cannot or do not want to return to your old job, it is sometimes a bit difficult to find a new entry. And even re-entering the old company is not always easy. There are therefore many different training measures that can increase your chances on the job market and also create contacts with other mothers.
- Recognising strengths: The qualities you have developed in everyday life can also be useful for companies: time and crisis management, organizational talent, management of budgets and much more. So approach your new tasks calmly and confidently. The most important thing, however, is that you enjoy your new task, otherwise the double task of children and work becomes a burden.
- Experience: Sometimes a sick leave or an internship makes it easier to enter the profession or offers a new orientation. Don’t hide your light under a bushel just because you’ve stayed at home for a while.
- Care for your child: In order to reconcile work and child, the right accommodation is essential, for example in adaycare center, parents’ initiativeor with achildminder. Unfortunately, it is still very difficult to get a childcare place. Often you even have to accept long waiting times. Maybe there is an in-housekindergarten in your new company?