Is work life balance a myth?
I think many parents out there are facing the fact one of them needs to stay at home while the other parent works hard and earns an income for the family. If they don’t have parents, in laws or nanny as part of their support team.
Let’s say you choose to stay at home, quit your job and taking care of your little one till he/she is 3 years old. Once they are in pre-school and you are finally free! Well, only few hours a day but hey that is good enough for us mothers to have a little bit of break and slowly regain our sanity. Then when we mother fire up our resume and take control of our lives, then we have shock of our lives as how quickly the market has became so differently during our absent. Then the question raises in our heads:
“Am I ready to go back to the workforce”
I may just have the solution for you.
Introducing Bossmom.Asia
As a working mother I can’t deny the fact more and more stay at home moms need another way to make extra income. But we can’t take on regular 9-6 job. Some of the bigger companies may not encourage work life balance which put many parents at difficult position. When I was home during my maternity leaves I came up this idea of what if I could be the person who can help stay at home moms to find way to earn that extra income.
Initially I wasn’t sure whether or not this idea could work. If it works I am pretty sure someone else probably already came up the idea. So I started to connecting with SME owners within my entrepreneurial social circle and asked them whether or not they were willing to take stay at home mom as employee. I have explained to them the benefit of hiring stay at home moms such as instead of hire a full time staff with paying the benefit and social security, you can hire one or two part time stay at home moms with less of pay and they can work from home if company may not have big office space.
As problem of manpower and budget become an issue for many of my SME friends the idea of stay at home mom being employees become more attractive. But I needed to test the water and see whether or not there were stay at home moms who were keen to take on the job. I started with just 2 job posts. Both job posts were from two friends who have corporate secretary and accounting firms. Very small company only have less than 5 people. As business was getting better they were facing the issue of hiring staff. So I asked them to give a short write up and I would post the job position in all the mummy forums. The responses were overwhelming. Long story short both of my friends have found stay at home moms who have excellent corporate accounting and taxation experience. They were impressed with results. Then it suddenly came to me this social issue was not my pure imagination and there were real people out there who were trapped in this type of predicament. A labour force survey by the Manpower Ministry found that in 2015, 273,000 women were out of the workforce because of family responsibilities. THIS IS A REAL ISSUE. Then I started to get feedbacks from Mummy forums although some of moms have excellent corporate experience but some of them don’t. So how can I help them if they don’t have corporate working experience? That is where entrepreneurship comes in. I am always a believer of hard work and honesty. If you have a good product and service (not a scam products and service), you can provide good customer service, and willing to knock on door to get business. You can survive, even make it in the game of entrepreneurship and being your own boss. So as part of Bossmom Asia we also provide training, seminar, workshop, community and mentorship to help stay at home mom to succeed. To find out more about Bossmom.Asia feel free to check out our next phase of engagement, entrepreneurship workshop
Final words.
Same ss many of you I can’t deny there is possibility this Bossmom. Asia platform may not work and many people may find disappointment rather than results. But I believe if we can have enough people to support this idea, IT CAN BE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. We can never know what we are doing today can be something amazing tomorrow! So please, come support us, be part of movement and come to this journey with us. Let’s make something impossible, possible. Why? Because we are mothers and this is what we do.
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