Recently, one of my best friends once asked me to write on this topic. But, I said I was quite busy with assignments and stuffs, which is true. At the same time, while dedicating myself to do the never-ending assignment, I also procrastinate. Hence, this post is written.
When people are grown up, the conversation topics becomes more serious, and complicated. We come to a point where every thought and view is crucially examined in holistic perspective. An argument grows bigger and branches to next arguments, so the comment thread becomes longer in-line. Everyone in the group converses with their individual points, so do I.
I just texted my senior who was also my not blood related sister. She was very dear and we opened up to any sort of conversation. Like today, we talked about her new life as a mother. She was, at one point felt a huge burden in completing house chores while dedicating herself as a mother to a newborn daughter. It came to her anger when the husband just had his rest after coming back from work. Guess what I think, he is not the only one who acts like that. I think most of men would just sit and relax once they reach home. But, one thing to realise MEN, you are not the only who got tired. With your wife dalam pantang, plus kena jaga anak, masak, kemas rumah semua, she is more tired than you. So, TAKE NOTE! Now that the maternity leave is over, she has to continue teaching and the husband is working on the ship at the ocean. What I can do far from here is to pray for both of them. I hope my sister can be strong in this obstacle.
A woman is really a super human (I know this is exaggerating). I am not sure if you have watched a video about this job interview or not. In that video, the interviewer described the job scope, but he also stated that the employee would not get any pay check. None of them figured that the job described was the work of a mom, who would take care of the welfare of the household. Yet, a mom would do it diligently at her best.
With advancement of the technology in this world, the social needs are also changed. People would want to have the best of everything, in term of career and personal development. Same goes to women. Women nowadays would demand to be in a high rank position, be it in the company or even nation wide. Everyone is in hunger for acknowledgement, therefore he or she is trying to get better and receive higher salary.
However, for a woman, how high you are going to be ranked socially, you are not exempted to be ranked in the family. The responsibilities of being a career woman and a mother are two different fields of task. This act reminded me of a strong woman I met back in Warwick University. She came all the way from Malaysia to talk with us, Petronas scholars in an engagement session. After years of having hardworks as an engineer, she finally decided to change her department to Human Resources just for the sake her family. Being an engineer made her a busy woman that she had less quality time with the family. Though the pay of being a technical expert is so much higher than being non technical department, she is willing to give up that. She prioritises the family first. She inspired me on how she managed to succeed in both equally important worlds. I wish I will do the same in future if the time comes.
But since I am neither a wife nor a mother, I guess, I will keep climbing the career ladder till I find what I really want to achieve. Of course, through the right way la. Not that I want to tergedik-gedik dengan boss, so that boss favours me and naikkan my pangkat just like that. I don't fancy such strategy to be honest. If I am deemed fit to be there, I'll be there. If not, I'll make my own way to get the best for my own self.
NB: post dah lama jadi draft. Tak pernah habis. Now dah bosan. Tak tahu nak tulis apa. Sambung this post pon macam tak de idea. Haha.
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