Do you have domestic help? Do you think having a helper to assist you in your household duties is important? Recently, we engaged a part-time helper to clean the house once a week and we’re loving it! It really allows us to rest a lot more during the weekends (the only time we do any housework) and it feels so nice coming home to a clean house!
Last Sunday, I read an article (2nd in the Brand’s Women at the Top series written by Wong Kim Hoh, I wrote about the 1st here) on a high flying legal eagle who does not have any domestic help at all so all housework is split between her husband and her. Seriously admirable! Did I mention that she has 3 kids?
Hope you all don’t mind me including snippets of the articles in this series (8 in total) as I find them very inspirational! Bite-size summaries for all of you who don’t have time to read the full article! Furthermore, I have always been interested in how one should balance work and family and what better way to know than to learn from those who have gone before me?
On balancing work and family
… to be rational and work around limitations…
Choose within your limitations; ask yourself what areas offer you the best chance of taking a good shot…
You just have to be very focused and disciplined.
And with strong family support to help take care of her children plus a family-friendly firm which advocates flexi-hours and telecommuting work arrangements, she is able to have her cake and eat it too! Definitely “an alignment of the stars” as Rachel Eng puts it.
Her profile on her law firm’s website
An 2008 article on flexible work arrangements which interviewed her
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