There is a widespread perception that women on maternity leave lose their qualifications and then find it more difficult to get a job again. We do not agree with this opinion and today we will prove the opposite. Here are just a few of the skills that mothers learn during maternity leave.
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- Sleep standing, sitting or not sleeping at all
These skills are possessed by a conscript soldier, a combat horse and, of course, a young mother. If in your "previous life" you spent half the day off in bed, and on weekdays you woke up only after a cup of strong coffee, then 3-4 weeks after the birth of your baby, you discovered amazing superpowers - you sleep no more than 4-5 hours a day and while doing as much as the eight-armed Indian goddess Lakshmi can. And after a "full" six hours of sleep, you are as fresh as a rosebud at dawn. A baby in the house is the best simulator for practicing the skills of regular early waking up and the ability to fall asleep in any position for a minimum interval of time. After several months of training, when you go to work, it will be very useful to you - you will become the standard of punctuality and energy for your colleagues.
All these abilities, plus the ability to do a complete reboot in a couple of minutes of sleep during your lunch break or on the way to work, will make you the most indispensable employee if you remember to mention these opportunities when you go to work.
The ability of any mother is to sleep while sitting and even standing. Now, without getting enough sleep at night, you may well be able to take a nap on the way to work or during your lunch break, in order to get down to business with renewed vigor.
- There is a stopwatch
Speaking of lunch break, female employees who have left the decree are not the ones who spend a couple of hours on business lunches and snacks. Mom can eat a three-course lunch in 5 minutes and drink one cup of coffee throughout the day, and without even stopping from the workflow. Not surprising after months, when she had to carry and rock her treasure on one hand around the clock, and grab food with the other in between feeding, walking, bathing, washing and other entertainments of home Disneyland.
- Work in any environment
It is easy to carry out important negotiations on the phone in the atmosphere of a “bird market”! Writing a report in the trading center on the foreign exchange market couldn't be easier! To bring down a table of statistical data when all colleagues poured a third glass in honor of March Eighth - do not be ridiculous - this is just a holiday after she had to feed the child at the same time at home, read the instructions for new superampers, listen to recommendations from the pediatrician on the phone, and all this under the screams of her beloved husband, who cares for the fate of UEFA Mom can work after maternity leave with ease in any non-working environment!
- Do 5 things at the same time
An ordinary office manager is able to solve no more than 2-3 tasks at the same time, and all of them will be done mediocre. Quite different - a mother, hardened by "maternity fitness". She is able to keep in her memory an unlimited number of multidirectional problems, control the quality of work performed in several projects at once and simultaneously check the data of colleagues and subordinates. And not because he does not trust them, and not because he considers them less competent, but simply because he can no longer control, the need for continuous monitoring of the situation has already become part of the blood. The habit of holding a child, a spoon, an iron, a telephone and a vacuum cleaner in your hands at the same time, affects the official duties, making the mother an indispensable universal employee.
- Memorize quickly and well
Biologists have discovered that in some animal species, the regions of the brain responsible for the ability to remember increase during the period when they store for the winter, which makes it possible to remember hundreds of places where food is hidden. For a woman, such an incentive is the unrealistic number of fairy tales, poems and songs that have to be memorized three years before going to work. Mom has an excellent memory on maternity leave, so she can be safely entrusted with work with clients, sales, order support or logistics.
- Manage a team
Even raising one child, you quickly learn to lead, and by managing a gang of young tomboy, you become a real colonel. Therefore, heading a department, you can easily cope with coordinating the efforts of several subordinates to achieve a common result, and even teach them to do a lot of useful things, for example, eye exercises, which will increase the efficiency of each employee and improve the overall atmosphere. Easily build subordinates and make them not only fulfill their direct duties, but also have lunch, do exercises, and also go to the pot together and at strictly allotted hours.
- Don't be distracted by little things
Unlike most colleagues who, without hesitation, while away the time over a cup of tea in the middle of the working day, visit friends from the next department or chat on social networks, a mother who recently left the decree knows for sure that every second, when nothing distracts her from work, just gold. During the months devoted to the little one, we develop a conditioned reflex: if a minute has stood out when the little one does not require increased attention to itself, because it is time to sleep, eat or play, then we must use it immediately and with the greatest benefit, that is, do something important and urgent, until the next end of the world began.
- Be creative in solving issues
Mom, like that Foka - dock of all trades. Who else will make doll furniture out of a shoe box, a colorful panel from plastic bottle caps and a wigwam out of a mop with Dad's robe. Only she is able to make the child forget about tears with the help of a garbage bag or a paper napkin that has become a butterfly, and on the quiet still shove broccoli and kefir puree into his surprisingly open mouth. The question is - why all these skills at work, where completely different tasks are solved. Yes, no matter what problems we face - it is important how creatively we can approach them, and in this moms have no equal.A valuable shot, what can I say!
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