Seventeen Years of Being Needed, Then What
Nobody ever talks about how hard it is for a stay at home mom to go back to work after years of solving problems for her little people. You do not just return to the workforce. You grieve an identity you did not realize you lost. I did not want to give up my career. I worked hard for it. I earned it. I never went to college. Not because I was not smart. Not because I was lazy. I was struggling with something I did not understand at the time. School was always hard for me. When I finally had enough credits to graduate, I was done. Because I did not have a degree, I had to work harder to prove myself. I landed a position as a Life Claim Analyst at a major insurance company because someone believed in me enough to open a door. The training was intense. Four to five weeks of nonstop learning, and I loved every minute of it. I did not realize until then how much I loved analyzing things. Looking back, that makes perfect sense. In just four months, I went from analyst to Senior Life Claim An...