Are you navigating a career path influenced by the demands of parenthood or seeking flexibility in your professional life? Here’s how my journey from teaching to solopreneurship taught me the art of pivoting and adaptation.
I want to offer some perspectives you might not find on my website. Inspired by a LinkedIn post on motherhood and its impact on careers, I realized how closely my career path is tied to my children.
Before having kids, I started as a teacher and later moved into private school teaching as my children reached school age and needed alternative schooling options. I even co-founded and ran a non-profit school to address unmet needs in our community. When that school couldn't secure enough funding, I pivoted to homeschooling my kids and sought flexible work-from-home opportunities.
Whenever a position didn’t accommodate my schedule or our family's financial needs, I pivoted again, continuously learning new things on the fly. This constant adaptation has given me a vast skill set I wouldn't have acquired otherwise.
Elizabeth Gilbert's analogy of some of us being hummingbirds and others being jackhammers has always resonated with me. I've always seen myself as a hummingbird, transferring ideas and skills from place to place, allowing them to grow with each new experience. I know how to succeed, and boy, do I know how to fail. I’ve become adept at the art of the pivot, learning many hard lessons and finding ways to navigate through them.
Solopreneurship is hard, lonely, and often soul-sucking, but it can also be exciting, fulfilling, and collaborative if you allow it to be. On this solopreneurship journey with me? I’d love to connect and hear your story.
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