8 competitive advantages compared to those who did not “sit on maternity leave”
- Sleep standing, sitting or not sleeping at all
They have such skills: a conscript soldier, a combat horse, and, of course, a young mother. If in the “former life” you spent half the day off in bed, and on weekdays woke up only after a cup of strong coffee, then 3-4 weeks after the birth of the baby, you discovered amazing supernormal abilities - sleep no more than 4-5 hours a day and while doing as much as maybe the eight-armed Indian goddess Lakshmi. And after a “full” six hours of sleep, you are as fresh as a rosebud at dawn. The baby in the house is the best simulator for practicing the skills of regular early lifts and the ability to fall asleep in any position for a minimum time interval. After several months of training, when you go to work, it will be very useful for you - you will become the standard of punctuality and energy for your colleagues.
All these abilities plus the ability to completely reboot in a couple of minutes of sleep during a lunch break or on the way to work will make you the most irreplaceable employee, if you do not forget to mention these opportunities when you go to get a job.
The ability of any mother is to sleep while sitting and even standing. Now, having not slept at night, you will be able to take a nap on the way to work or during the lunch break, so that later you can do things again.
- There is a stopwatch
Speaking of the lunch break, the employees who came out of the decree are not those who spend a couple of hours on a business lunch and snacks. Mom is able to eat a three-course lunch in 5 minutes and drink one cup of coffee all day, and without even looking up from the workflow. Not surprising after months when she had to carry and rock her treasure on one hand around the clock, and grab food in the interval between feeding, walking, bathing, washing and other home disneyland entertainment with the other.
- Work in any environment
It is easy to conduct important telephone conversations in an atmosphere of a “bird market”! Writing a report in the trading center on the currency exchange - there is nothing easier! To compile a table of statistics when all colleagues poured a third glass in honor of the Eighth of March - don’t tell me - it’s just a holiday after she had to feed her baby at home, read the instructions for new superpampers, listen to the recommendations from the pediatrician on the phone and all this under the cries of a beloved husband rooting for the fate of UEFA. Mom can work after decree with ease with any non-working environment!
- Perform 5 tasks at a time
An ordinary office manager can solve no more than 2-3 tasks at a time, and at the same time they will all be done mediocre. Quite another - mom, hardened by "maternity fitness." She is able to keep in memory an unlimited number of multidirectional problems, control the quality of work in several projects at once and simultaneously check the data of colleagues and subordinates. And not because he does not trust them, and not because he considers them less competent, but simply because he can no longer control, the need for continuous monitoring of the situation has already become part of the blood. The habit of holding in the hands of a child at the same time, a spoon, an iron, a telephone and a vacuum cleaner also affects official duties, making mom an indispensable universal employee.
- Fast and good to remember
Biologists have discovered that in some species of animals, the brain regions responsible for the ability to remember increase during the period when they make reserves for the winter, which allows you to remember hundreds of places where the food is hidden. For a woman, such an incentive becomes an unrealistic number of fairy tales, poems and songs that have to be learned for three years before going to work. Mom has an excellent memory on maternity leave, so she can be easily charged with working with clients, sales, order support or logistics.
- Manage a team
Even raising one child, you quickly learn to lead, and managing a gang of juvenile tomboys, you become a real colonel. Therefore, when heading a department, it’s easy to cope with the coordination of efforts of several subordinates to achieve a common result, and even teach them to do a lot of useful things, for example, charging for the eyes, which will increase the efficiency of each employee and improve the overall atmosphere. Easily build subordinates and make them not only fulfill their direct duties, but also have lunch, do exercises, and also go to the pot all together and in strictly allotted hours for this.
- Do not be distracted by trifles
Unlike most colleagues, who do not hesitate to spend time drinking a cup of tea in the middle of the working day, visiting friends from the neighboring department or chatting on social networks, a mother who recently went on maternity leave knows for sure that every second when nothing distracts her from work, just golden. For the months devoted to the small one, we develop a conditioned reflex: if a minute is given when the small one does not require special attention, because it is time to sleep, eat or play, then you must use it immediately and with the greatest benefit, that is, do something important and urgent, until the next doomsday began.
- Be creative in resolving issues
Mom, like that Foka - for all hands of the dock. Who else will make doll furniture from a shoe box, a colorful panel of plastic bottle caps and a mop teepee with a father’s robe. Only she can force the child to forget about the tears with the help of a garbage bag or a paper towel that has become a butterfly, and shove the broccoli puree and kefir into his surprisingly open mouth into the noise. The question is - why all these skills at work, where completely different tasks are solved. It doesn’t matter what problems we are facing - it is important how creatively we can approach their implementation, and there are no equal moms in this.Valuable shot, what can I say!
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Unfortunately Larisa is right, as most employers think. But in general, depending on what kind of work, for example, if you don’t work as an accountant or a lawyer for about a year, you will have to make up a lot.
I left the decree about four months ago. It was difficult to prove that mothers can really work responsibly. It all depends on both the bosses and the mother herself. Taught discipline (when raising a baby without her in any way), I can easily cope with responsibilities at work faster than other slow women. All the time you think one step ahead, as with a child 🙂 At the expense of sick leave - it's really a problem, my mom helps me out. Without this, unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to focus on work.
From my own experience I know that leaving the decree you get lost from the abundance of information for the first 2 weeks, and then you are included in the work. And of course, so that the family helps in everything. I agree that mothers are more responsible.
The daughter literally two weeks ago went to work after maternity leave. For 2.5 years, her well-paid place smoothly transferred to another person, and the law was not violated. Other employers with twins, her candidacy was not even considered. Although there is experience and education. While getting involved in a new profession that he managed to get, he gets tired. The kids are bored.