Welcome to the new monthly (or thereabouts) Successful Single Mum series! Every month I’ll be profiling a single mum who is successfully making a better life for herself and her kids through self-employment. As a single mama weighed down with responsibility it’s easy to think self-employment isn’t for you. There are very few role models!…
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…
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…
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…