Greetings friends and hope we are all good 🥰💕.
I never knew I can enjoy flexibility in my work life when I was working 9:00 to 5;00 until many years after I stopped working full time due to how I was faced with family and have to pay attention to supporting the children.
Then my 9:00 to 5;00 work life as a customer relations personal was totally 💯 detailed with from attending to customers in the office, handling of documents and making sure filling is appropriately created, dealing with calls for my boss and scheduling appointments. That was purely a routinized schedule of everyday encounter with week to week.
Although those days were full of hectic and pressures but I could say I was particularly concerned about the earnings that comes with it but never in any way what I will term as flexible. I was mostly concerned then of how to earn, settle bills 💵 and take care with what is left balancing other expenses. But everything indeed if you ask me is routinized.
9:00 to 5:00 work life and experiences is one I will never want to go through again because immediately I had my first daughter and needed to stay off work for the first six months then as maternity leave, I realized how my life will have a new turn because of child bearing. Its not that I would not have been able to keep up to this routinized job lifestyle, but how would I have managed with the timing ⏱. This thought made me to start thinking of how to get free and look for other opportunities that will enable me work less, creating time for family. So I managed this work for another one year and has to quit because time was becoming a problem. The stress was overwhelming as I was not able to cope with the things I have to do after work since my daughter needed more attention.
And then the next thing was to first settle down for few months after I stopped working, allowing my daughter to get to kindergarten age, which gave me the chance to start a property management course while she is in school. And after few years if this course I started a totally different work life system that is so flexible with a pace that I enjoy so much. A job I can schedule appointments on how to move according to how the timing ⏱ favors me. This jobs most times involves online sourcing for properties through networking which I can do from home as remote and physical inspection when scheduled with clients.
Working from home as remotely or working on the field with the kind of arrangements that suits us is the best flexibility of work lifestyle. This kind of work experience enables us to manage our time as we desire since we have the opportunities to create the balance on how things suits us. And most especially, of how we know how best to structure everything to fit into our schedules.
Now that I have come this far with a great work flexibility and time management, I have been able make available more free time for my family and myself towards other important activities that makes living worthwhile. I don’t think 💭 I desire anything more than how things are now, because I tell you that there is nothing better than having flexibilities in all we do in life.
This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 140, edition 02, tagged “How Flexible Is Your Work Life”.
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