My career isn’t broken just because I’m on a career break
IT HAS been a year since I went on my second maternity leave, and six months since I decided to extend that leave into a “career break”.
It’s been a wonderful time for me and my family, and has allowed me to embrace my role as a mother to my two children, now aged one and three. What I didn’t expect was how much I would gain from it, too.
As a workaholic, taking a pause isn’t an easy thing to do
As a self-confessed workaholic, with 12 years of experience under my belt, taking time out from my career was not something I expected to do.
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