What do you do to turn things around when everything sucks? Do you have any go-to mood boosters? I think every mum, and ESPECIALLY single mums, needs a few fail-safe self-care tools to fall back on in a slump. Because they happen. A lot. There’s no shame in it. Coping alone is flippin’ tough. I’ve always…
Tomorrow it’s International Women’s Day. This post is a call-to-arms for equality in the workplace – #BeBoldForChange. When I returned to work after I had my daughter, I decided to work part-time. I was demoted. My responsibilities were slashed and a childless colleague with very little communications experience was given my job. It was humiliating. I’d worked full-time in…
Here’s my income report for February 2017. Why am I publishing income reports? I know it’s been done to death but I want to be totally honest about the realities of self-employment as a single mother. Total transparency means getting down to brass tacks about what I’m bringing in and what I’m shelling out. I…
In June 2015 my life changed forever. I quit my job. It was my first day back from a holiday in the Umbrian sunshine, where I’d done little but soak up the sun, eat delicious home-made pasta and read voraciously. Every moment I’d had to myself I’d read and read and read. Absorbing the teachings…
I’ve already written about one of my fictional single mum mentors, Lorelai Gilmore. But thankfully there are also real life single mums I look to for inspiration, and understanding. Regular single mums like you or I or also happen to be trailblazers making their mark on the blogging world by writing about their unique experiences of…
Being a single mum gets a tonne of bad press. We’re more likely to live in poverty, have mental health problems, be isolated, suffer from stress, and so on, and so on. It can get very depressing. We’re also often on the receiving ends of pitying looks and ‘I don’t know how you cope’ comments….
Have you done a search for local flexible or part-time jobs lately? If like me you scan the local job sites every now hoping that your dream job – challenging, interesting, genuinely flexible – might have miraculously appeared, you’ll know just how far we are from that dream job ever being a reality. Truly flexible work is…
I’m back with my second income report and the first of 2017. I’ve decided to publish these because I want to be totally honest about the realities of self-employment as a single mother. Total transparency means getting down to brass tacks about what I’m bringing in and what I’m shelling out. I hope that by sharing…
Flexible working. What does it mean to you? Having the flexibility to live life on my own terms – working where and when it suits me – is the major driving force behind why I became self-employed and why I created this site. And here’s my prediction for the future. The traditional nine-to-five working day? Its days are…
“I’d never have the self-discipline to work for myself from home, how do you do it?” It’s a question I get asked all the time. The truth is self-discipline has never been my strong point. I am the queen of procrastination. At school and university I always left essays and assignments to the last minute. Man did I…