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Do you Work?

  • Writer: Admin
    Admin
  • Apr 26, 2019
  • 3 min read

Written: 4/17/2019

I am late in updating my blog. I meant to do it once a week and well now it is a new month. I have been working on all kinds of things toward marketing and spring break happened in the middle of this unplanned hiatus.


I have been kind of wondering how to proceed here. Years, ago I use to blog about my life and the more I read about author’s blogs the overwhelming advice I get is not to do a blog about writing.


I know my goal originally was about perseverance. And I believe I will be staying with that goal, but I think it will being turning more into something more personal. I know I can’t help but write about my experience. My mind keeps wanting to write about a myriad of things running through my head and traditionally the people who enjoy my writing have asked I do this more.



Today, I kind of decided I needed to proceed down this track when I went to answer a simple question on Twitter. I am new to Twitter and have been interacting with the writing community there. I use the handle, Athene Trek. Yes, my character from my comic.


Anyways. I follow a person who goes by the name A.G.Letterman who has a picture of Stephen King as their avatar with the fun words Stephen King wannabe on it. (@agletterman)


Today he asked:

I saw some people doing this and thought why not. I want to know more of my followers, so please tell me about yourself and where you’re from. I’ll pin you all on a map. #WritingCommunity #amwriting.


Lol, fun inquisitive question.


I answered this. I keep thinking about all the subtext in my answer.


My answer:

I live in Oregon. But was raised a military brat I lived all over the USA. My day job is that of a full time Mom. One of my children is medically involved so she is a full-time job.

I write to entertain myself...sometimes I get stick home for months.

So, the novel I just…


(I ran out of words and hit send and realized auto-correct changed stuck to stick)


Then I continue that thread:


Stick = stuck

The novel I just published I started when I was trapped in a room keeping daughter alive.

It was the adventures I had in my head to help keep me sane as days and years bled into each other.


I write fantasy & sci-fi mixes full of Hope and struggle.


I hit send. Then well I grabbed my son and asked for helping me lift his sister into her wheelchair. This is something I did amid the morning routine getting the kids ready for school.


So, as I finish all these tasks and my mind chewed on this response.


I always worry people think I am fishing for sympathy. Then I remind myself that what I wrote was true and the mirror someone holds up to it is about them not me. I think about me justifying being a stay home mom.


This is a subject I have been wanting to talk about awhile and this tweet I thought would be a good jumping off point.


I want to talk about how society talks about this choice. The demeaning subtext of the social dialogue and even things I have gone through to justify my choices to people around me.


First off, this is a job. Those stories of woman lounging and eating bon, bons on the couch are fabrication of someone who has never done this job full time. There are no sick days, every vacation is a working one and you never leave work. Nothing is ever finished there is no review.


You work holidays and sick days and you suppose to work more for holidays, and it is a privilege these days. A privilege that limits your future. The work place has a long way to go acknowledging keeping track of 3 or more different people’s schedules, keeping the laundry running, a budget and managing the flotsam and jetsam of the chaos home management is fraught with.


I feel honored don’t get me wrong but when asks me if I work, I say, “Yes, all the time. Even when I am sleeping.”

 
 
 

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