i already left the work force since sunday… yes, sunday, 31st of may, since my company still had an event that day in megamall and i was expected to be there. but starting yesterday, i am already a full-fledged stay-at-home mom and a full-time homemaker, a noble job because it’s a 24 hour job but without any pay. but still, i took the plunge.
i can say that this decision was backed up with a lot of courage and some of you may know that this was long overdue. i wanted to resign even early this year but i could not as we’re not yet ready then and i was not also allowed by my boss. but pregnancy came and i had more reasons to leave my work and concentrate first on my number one duty, which is to take care of my kids (iñigo and the baby inside me). aside from that is my failure until now to find a full-time helper and/or nanny though am not really interested to find one, hehe, still praning to leave over iñigo with just a stranger. and am not a superwoman, i cannot juggle parenting, house chores, and work without feeling dead-tired every night.
but i know it’s not a popular decision as the trend nowadays is both the husband and the wife are working. i always had to explain to my boss who happened to be working mom why i wanted to stop working for the meantime. i had to tell her that it would not make me less of a woman if i ask money for a lipstick from a husband. there were also those who raised their brows or sighed in disapproval over my decision as they were afraid that i’ll just be another dependent of jude but i didn’t mind. the husband’s role is to provide anyway and though society now dictates that the wife should also earn money an unemployed wife doesn’t mean she’s the lazy, incompetent, and good-for-nothing wife. damn… why do i have to tell all these??? hahaha.
oh, i’ll just rest with the fact that this decision is a mutual decision between me and jude.
my father was not also keen on the idea that i just stay at home as i could no longer use what i learned from school. i get his sentiments as he and my mother really made an extra effort to send me to good schools and i even had an mba degree to boot. but as i’ve said, this is only temporary and i hope when the time comes that am ready to work again the corporate world will still take me in. but if not, i would gladly accept my fate and find something worthwhile (and hopefully lucrative too) to do in other fields. my life doesn’t stop with having an 8-5 job.
