Happy Mother’s Day! The fulfillment is indescribable regardless of all the challenges including those in a society that doesn’t fully understand, help, and support the importance of family, children, and parenthood. I just read this article via social media and it sums up the struggles that women, whether with or without children, have to contend with as members of the filmmaking workforce: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-working-moms-hollywood-20190510-story.html I personally experienced having to disappear for 1.5 hour for an extended lunch in between a shoot to pump
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Career and Parenting: Finding focus, love, and fulfillment
This is worth reading whether you are young or not so young. I read this post in social media: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-advice-i-wish-had-25-shane-rodgers This is an excerpt from the said post: "4. Deprioritise your career when your kids are young If you have skills, commitment and passion, careers tend to take care of themselves. Over the long haul, it really doesn’t matter if you have a few years when your career is in canter mode while you prioritise young children. This should apply to men and women.
Born Out of Love: Career and motherhood
I read this social media post: Motherhood Is Not a Woman's Most Important Job: It's more like an unpaid volunteer position you commit to for life My two cents here... Some people tend to say, the best kind of work you can get is working with your passion and not treating your work as a job. As mentioned in this article, motherhood, a very fulfilling and miraculous experience one can have, is not a job and a mother doesn’t get paid for