Hire a Mum, She Knows About Hard Labour
They don’t call childbirth labour for nothing. It’s hard work and not everyone is cut out for it — you have to have the right parts. Once the clock starts ticking and you roll your sleeves up, you don’t know how long the overtime will be, you only get a few minutes break before you have to labour on again and the stress of it all can be exhausting. There is an upside though, the end result is worth it and a woman becomes a mother.
So where am I going with all this emphasis on how childbirth can be compared to a job in the workforce? The answer is simple, childbirth — however, it is played out — lets a woman know how strong she is and introduces her to a self that can take so much more than before, it builds character and that is what gives her the upside to get the job done.
If you are interviewing a mother and in the back of your mind you are wondering whether she is worth hiring — with the baggage and all — you might want to consider the following before you make up your mind.
She knows patience — if a woman didn’t learn patience while she was in labour she surly has fined tuned the art of patience by bringing up her children. A trait she can use with difficult clients, while training others and when having to make the right decisions.
She can multitask — yes it is true, all women can multitask but have you ever held a crying baby while trying to prepare milk, making sure that dinner doesn’t burn and trying to figure out if you have to change a nappy or not, all at the same time? If you have and managed to take care of everything that needed your attention at once then you can surely multitask beyond what is expected. Not much different than having to write an email while talking on the phone and checking your diary.
She is there — they say your children are the only ones who know what your heart sounds like from the inside. This is a very powerful image and one that can only half explain how strong the bond between a mother and child really is. It is difficult to leave someone that has been with you every second for nine months and then it is even harder after the four months allowed to us as maternity leave. Some women go back to work because they need the money, some because they spent years building a career and others because it is a part of who they are, but all of them find it difficult to leave their children to go back to join the workforce. So if a mother is willing to leave her child in the care of someone else to work for you, she is giving up precious time she could be using to play and teach her child. She will, therefore, use this time wisely and work even harder.
She can predict the future — ever messed with a toddler’s stuff without their permission or pressed the button on the lift before they had the chance? If you have you know that you should have known better. Mothers don’t need a crystal ball to know what will come next, they have just learned to assess a situation and predict how the next few moments will go. True, adults are not as predictable as children, but once you have raised someone from the time they took their first breath, you have a much better handle on human nature and, therefore, can take a guess as to how someone will react to a certain situation.
