This is my husband. He makes music. He rocks.
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I am a mother and a full-time high school teacher, and I am pretty good at both if I do say so myself. I have a master’s degree in Education Teaching and Learning and I have been a teacher for ten years. I have been married for five years and have an infant baby girl and a two-year-old boy.
Nearly a year ago, I started a business with a health and wellness company. Many people wonder, (a) Why would I want to take on more responsibilities? and (b) Why would a teacher with a master’s degree want to trade in a stable middle-income career to sell lipstick?
When my son was five weeks old, my husband was “right-sized†from corporate America for the fourth time in four years. It was at that point that I encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming a recording engineer. He is an extremely talented musician and producer, but for him to pursue his dream, I had to pick up a lot of the financial slack in our household. I had two options to increase my salary in my current field: Become an administrator, which is something I have never had the desire to do, or get a master’s degree. The former would have made a much larger impact on my paycheck, but my heart was in the classroom and my literature books.
We plodded along and in January of 2006, we had our second baby. We could not afford for me to take much time off work, so I had to return to my full-time job when my daughter was only six-weeks-old. The day I went back to work, I immediately went into the nurse’s office and started bawling. I wanted to be at home with my family, but I could not.
In the meantime, my husband’s business began to take on a life of its own, but in an effort to avoid the costs and hassles of daycare—-niether of which we could afford—-we had to work separate shifts. This meant that we would not see much of each other. And that was the point at which I felt that I was going to have a nervous breakdown—How was I going to take care of my family financially AND cultivate family relationships at the same time?
So I made a major, life-changing decision: The current way was not working, so I had to find another way. Fortunately, my sister-in-law had recently introduced me to the Arbonne business opportunity. Once how it worked finally “clicked†with me, I saw a light at the end of the tunnel—-I could work from home and increase my income at the same time. Arbonne would be my way to eliminate my financial worries AND be with my family. Arbonne would allow me to travel, to return to those old hobbies I no longer had the time for, to send my kids to private schools, and to live the life I truly wanted.
I know that if I keep working steadily a few hours per week, within the next year or so I will be able to stay home with my husband and children and never again have to wait for the paycheck to arrive so that I can do the grocery shopping. If you are sitting out there tonight wondering if there is another way out there for you, think it over. Life is full of options. Take them.
"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde
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