Work at Home Mom - You Work Hard!

August 22, 2006

“The funny part - for me - is that I don’t think I personally even realized how much work I do!!!!” Posted Comment to Work at Home Is Work

I noticed the above comment left on my blog in regards to my post about how working at home is hard work and we don’t often get the credit we deserve.

And I find this to be the case with many moms. In fact it could have been part of the reason the wife on wife swap wasn’t getting the help she needed. Simply because SHE wasn’t taking what she did as seriously as she should. This woman worked 8 hours a day transcribing! That is a full time job, on top of being a full time mommy.

Are you giving yourself credit for the work you do? For how important your job is as mom and work at home mom? Do you realize that what you do is a job? Just because it’s at home doesn’t mean you aren’t really working and working hard. If you don’t take what you do seriously or realize how hard you really do work no one else will.

For instance, if you never express to your spouse that you had a hard day with the job and the kids were partially difficult today how will they ever know? Then you’ll sit there exhausted and not feeling appreciated and yet they’ll have no idea you’re feeling this way or even understand why you’d feel that way.

Of course I don’t mean to complain all the time. I certainly don’t do that. However my husband knows how hard I work and he truly appreciates what I do and how hard I work & that is in large part because I recognize it too.

So if you’re a work at home mom, realize how hard you work and give yourself credit for that. A telecommuting job is a job like any other and all jobs have their ups and downs and all employees have their good and bad days…even us work at home employees.

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