Working (On) Motherhood
with Leah
I'm Leah, and in a lucky twist of fate, I've landed my three dream jobs:
book editor, writer, and mother. Since having my son in December 2008, my
work-life has been in constant flux - full-time? part-time? freelance?
working at home or in the office? It depends on the day and which way the
wind is blowing - and figuring out how to keep it all going is a constant
challenge. Heck, I'm still getting used to the idea of being someone's
mom.
Check out my profile on Work It, Mom! and my personal blog, A Girl and a Boy.
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I have a hard time letting people help me, but lately I’ve been fantasizing about what it would be like to have a personal assistant I could delegate all my less-than-desirable tasks to.
A basic list of responsibilities might look like this:
- make flight and hotel arrangements
- make appointments of any (every!) kind
- do anything involving talking on the phone, actually
- pay bills
- clean spam out of my inboxes
- clean spam* out of my fridge (*forgotten leftovers)
- go grocery shopping
- load the dishwasher (I don’t mind unloading)
- clean the bathroom
- do our taxes
- keep track of my Groupon-type purchases before they expire
- remind me to send birthday/anniversary/thank you cards
- cook dinner and clean up afterward
Sounds like what I need is an assistant AND a housekeeper AND an accountant AND a personal chef. And someone to rearrange my brain so I’d actually loosen my grip and allow these people to help me out.
What would you delegate?
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Yes to all of the above. I would also delegate driving kids to any and all practices, meets, birthday parties, trips to buy presents for those parties - really anything involving driving. While we’re fantasizing, I would still show up at these events (sometimes), but on my bike. That way I could still do that casual parent-coach chitchat that’s critical to knowing what’s going on, but I could do with it without my butt constantly planted in a chair somewhere.
Also, I would work harder to buy good presents if I could send someone out to actually get them and then also package and mail them.
Melospiza | May 8th, 2012 at 4:26 pm