Girl With a Purpose (GWAP)

School and the Working Woman

So you've decided to go back to school to further your education so that you can get that promotion or change jobs or even start your own business...but have you seriously considered how studying will affect the other aspects of your life?

 

How will you balance study with your work and family life?

 

Does your boss know that you will be studying and is willing to give you some time to do so?

 

Does your significant other understand that he'll have to take on more of the household chores and do more managing of the children at this time?

 

Are your children aware that mummy will have to wake up at odd hours to study and that this will affect time that she spends with them?

 

These are just some of the issues that arise when one wants to study and is working...

 

So how have women done it before you, and done it successfully?

 

Well they segment their lives...they find ways to decrease stress...and understand what is important at certain junctures of their lives.

 

1) They ensure that they eat properly...they ensure that each meal is well-balanced with all food groups and that they eat at least three times a day.

 

2) They manage their time...by revising each day , thus ensuring that schoolwork doesn't build-up and by ensuring that the people in their lives get quality time with them too.

 

3) They communicate with their significant other and children, to ensure that the entire family is up to speed with happenings in each member's life.

 

4) They communicate with their boss to ensure that he/she knows what's happening on the school-front as well.

 

5) They find ingenious ways to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively, so that there isn't a degradation in performance that would cause their boss or co-workers to become concerned.

 

6) They make studying fun and easier by studying in groups...with people who are serious about their studies and time management.

 

7) They use time spent with family and friends to relax and then go hit the books.

 

8) They decrease some extra-curricular activities.

 

9) They maintain intimacy with their significant others by ensuring that their needs are taken care of.

 

10) They involve their significant other and children in what's happening at school (significant others and children can help with schoolwork and studying as well:)

 

Are you a woman who is working and is studying?

 

Are you struggling with your work-school-life balance?

 

What has worked for you?..What hasn't?

 

I'd like to hear from you...please post your comments below:).

 

Gillian

Rising Stars

So Inga has been voted off...Is it that she didn't get enough votes or is the Jamaican public unable to appreciate true talent?

Hmmhh...the jury is still out on this one...:)

However, the sponsors are the true winners here, as they're getting exactly what they wanted - a very exciting and controversial show that will get a lot of eyeballs and generate loads of street talk (buzz)...thus maximizing exposure of the company brand, Digicel.

Don't worry, Inga, there are still Jamaicans with lots of taste, that recognize you as a true talent :).

You got the exposure you need to start your journey in a cut-throat industry...

All you have to do is keep a cool head and go for it!...

Your rock girl!

(Rising Stars is the Jamaican version of American Idol - minus the off-screen drama :) and is a production of Digicel Jamaica).

Miss Lou's Send Off

(Louise Bennett-Coverly (affectionately called "Miss Lou") was Jamaica's cultural icon. She was a comedian, folklorist, poet, playwright and educator, whose mission was to enable Jamaicans to become comfortable with our "blackness" and our language, "patois", (pronounced, "patwah") and to spread the Jamaican culture, worldwide . She died on July 26, 2006 at the age of 86.

This is a tribute re her funeral).

What a fanciful affair Miss Matie!

Can you imagine?...Miss Lou bury in style.

Whole heap a lawya, doctor, politician, important people and even Busy Signal did get inna di act!

Tribute after tribute tell 'bout har life and wah she did do fi we cultcha.

How she selflessly give harself to helping di young ones fi understand wi blackness and to be proud ah it.

How she did go 'round Jamaica singing an' teaching in fi wi language, "patois", an' help us to appreciate it.

How har work, epecially in di theatre, did endear har to us.

And har marriage to Mr. Coverly...what a sweet sin ting, Miss Matie, fi marry fi over 40 'ears?

But skin pupalick! When di Prime Minister did appear, afta di ceremony, some a di people dem nearly go wild!

An she jus' did a wave and smile back like she was di Queen a England!...

Well it do mi good fi see Miss Lou recognized by the whole a wi!

And fi see sey di young one dem get dem eyeful and dem earful re how Miss Lou did encourage and spread wi culture, near an' far.

Now di older generation can rest, knowing seh di young ones will not so easily figet...

Dat har legacy will live on and on!...

Walk good Miss Lou, walk good!

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