AMILY
IFE
Although Jody Allen is a successful full-time female engineer with her own business, she is also a full-time mother. Jody has four children all under the age of five. In fact, this was the main reason Jody decided to start her own buisness. Jody said that after she had her first child she found it hard to leave her.
(Jody's four children)
Jody now schedules her work around her children's appointments. "My family comes first" says Allen. "I tell all my clients that I will gladly do their work and get the job done well, but my work does not come before my family."
Jody says the same for her four women employees. Jody says that they also have a very flexible schedule, one that gives them the opportunity to see their children in a school function or take them to the doctors. Allen does not care when they do their work, as long as their work is done on time. This set-up is running pretty well and makes sense.
Allen works on ten to fifteen projects a week, and still has time to spend with her children. How does she do it? Well, for starters Jody sets away time for her children, like Jody's Tuesdays. Tuesday is Jody's time to be with her children. She does not work at all on that day.
(Jody's wall with all her children's drawings)
Jody loves the excitement of having four children and owning her own business. Jody said that most people her age do not have four children under five and their own business, and most clients have no idea that she has a whole new life outside of her work. She loves to work and hear the children playing upstairs. In fact, one of her entire walls is completely covered by her children's drawings and artwork.
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