格温妮丝·帕特洛 上班族妈咪致格温妮丝的公开信

上班族妈咪致格温妮丝的公开信  

Dear Gwyh

I really enjoyed your recent ments to E! about how easy an office job is for parents
pared to the grueling circumstances of being on a movie set. “I think it’s different when you have an office job
because it’s routine and
you know
you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you e home in the evening
” you said. “When you’re shooting a movie
they’re like
‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for o weeks
’ and then you work 14 hours a day
and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as
of course there are challenges
but it’s not like being on set.”
As a mother of a toddler
I couldn’t agree more!
我的孩子才刚学会走路，因此我对你说的表示强烈同意。
“Thank God I don’t make millions filming one movie per year” is what I say to myself pretty much every morning as I wait on a windy Metro-North platform
about to begin my 45-minute mute into the city. Whenever things get rough
all I have to do is keep reminding myself of that fact. It is my mantra.
And I know all my fellow working-mom friends feel the same. Am I right
ladies?
We’re always gabbing about how easy it is to balance work and home life. Whenever I meet with them at one of our weekly get-togethers — a breeze to schedule
because reliable baby sitters often roam my neighborhood in packs
holding up signs peddling their services — we have a petition to see who has it easier. Is it the female breadwinners who work around the clock to make sure their mortgages get paid
lying awake at night
wracked with anxiety over the idea of losing their jobs? Or is it the mothers who get mommy-tracked and denied promotions? What about the moms with “regular” 9-to-5 jobs
who are penalized when their kids are sick and they don’t have backup child care?
Those women are living the dream
I tell you!
Which reminds me
child care. As you know
Gwynnie
having a staff can be a real drag. It’s so hard to find good help these days! That’s why it’s a good thing there’s all this nationally subsidized
high-quality day care lying around for the taking. It just makes things easier knowing you have such a strong support neork and don’t have to pay someone anywhere from $30K to $65K annually to take care of your child full-time.
You mentioned in your E! interview that when someone has an office job
“You know you can do all the stuff in the morning
” and that hit the nail on the head. As someone with an office job
my mornings are obviously pretty leisurely. Sometimes I even have time to drink half of my coffee before it gets cold! After my 6 a.m. wake-up
I have a lot of time to loll around
hopping in the shower and then throwing makeup on my face
hoping that I’ll have enough time to put my tights on before my son starts crying in his crib. Then
when he does start crying
I have to make the decision: Do I get fully dressed
or do I go tend to him with my hair still dripping wet? Talk about being spoilt for choice!
Then I have a few Bellinis and adjust my 401(k) contributions.
After I get home from work
I’m full of energy and ready to cook dinner using one of the recipes you post on your lifestyle Web site
Goop: slow-cooked kale
pancetta and bread crumbs
anyone? After that
I’ll go to yoga
spend a few hours meditating and maybe do some online shopping
picking up a pair of $350 white leopard-printed short-shorts via Goop in preparation for the “spring break” I’ll take with my husband and son.
If there’s one thing I look good in after having a child
it’s short-shorts.
So
Gwyh
you’ve figured out the secret of working parents everywhere: Livin’ la vida desk job is a breeze pared to the 14-hour days of a film set. Fourteen hours? Who in New York — especially those in the finance
law and tech professions — could possibly work 14 whole hours?
Luckily
those 9-to-5 “ordinary job” hours grow on trees here.
And if you lose one
all you have to do is find another.
Yours
Mackenzie