Having a successful professional career and achieving financial independence is an achievement for women. But, is it possible to work out and be a mother present? Of course yes! Kempetro collaborators are proof that professional life and motherhood complement each other and, with balance and a waistline, you can be happy and fulfilled in both roles.
Generating a life and following its development, taking care and educating, completely changes the parents’ routine. For working mothers, the changes can be even greater. “Motherhood has brought changes in all aspects of my life and in my professional life it was no different. Reconciling work and young children is a big challenge. Only those who are mothers to understand ”, says collaborator Suely Lima, who works at the headquarters in Salvador. The mother of a 9-month-old baby, she has the support and constant presence of her husband in caring for the child. “He has an active participation in the same activities as mom. A big daddy for all hours! ”, He says.
For 16 years at Kempetro, in Salvador, and mother with two children aged 10 and 18, Leiliana Menezes recalls that the emotional connection between mother and son is very strong. “When the child gets sick, who does he want? The mother. School meeting, resolving any particular request, always ask the mother’s help. And we are always ready for the children ”, he says. For her, the balance between personal and professional life is not so difficult. “Kempetro has a flexible schedule that allows us to provide this assistance, and above all, we cannot live without digital media. The woman, mother, wife, collaborator, housewife requires flexibility to take care of our responsibilities, but it is obvious that there are supports behind the whole development ”, she points out.
Gleise Santiago, a collaborator from Rio de Janeiro, counts on the help of her in-laws to care for her 6-year-old daughter. “They take care of my daughter for a shift and take her to school. Now, with the pandemic, my husband and I are at home, and we are divided in the tasks to be able to work and pay attention to it ”, he pointed out. For Gleise, the keyword is routine. “Taking care of everything is not an easy task and I don’t even know if I can, but what I try is to create a routine so that we can do everything in the best possible way, with quality, without missing the necessary attention for her and dedicating to work ”, he says. She says that, in the first year of maternity, she thought about leaving work to dedicate herself only to her daughter out of concern, for fear that her daughter was not being well cared for, or that she missed her very much.
This was also the concern of Vivian Claudiano, collaborator of Espírito Santo, mother of an 8-month-old baby. “When I came back from maternity leave, I tried not to think about him at home. When I thought, I said to myself ‘he is fine, he is with his grandmother, he is being well cared for’, because he wanted to go home, “he said. Ana Paula Martins has not yet gone through the stage of having to leave her son to work. Her baby is only 4 months old and she is still on maternity leave, but she is already thinking about how she will return to work. “I believe it will be very tiring, but with organization, dedication and love for everything we do it is easier. I think the biggest challenge will be distance. I work in Carmópolis and live in Aracaju. If it were in the same city, I could see you at lunch. However, I will always remember that I am doing this for the good of him and the family ”, he points out.
Collaborator Gabriele Bezerra, who works in the Kempetro office in São Paulo, has more experience with motherhood. The mother of a 16-year-old boy, she became pregnant in high school, and her life was transformed for the better early on. “I realized that I had to study to get a good job and spend more time with my son”, he says. She always had the help of the mother to reconcile work with the child’s education. “My son lives with my parents, but I am always present in his life in everything, especially in school education. But my goal is to buy my house and bring him to live with me because I miss him a lot ”, he points out.
The son of Jaqueline Gomes, from Salvador, is already well grown. The mother of an 18-year-old boy, she says the biggest challenge she faced was when her mother, who helped her look after the boy while she was working, was diagnosed with cancer. Today the employee has a very close relationship with her son: “We do everything together! I involve him in almost everything so that he feels responsible for almost everything that happens at home. I believe that I managed to fulfill my role as a mother and I am still fulfilling and guiding to be a good man for society ”. And, with her experience, she leaves a message for all working moms: “My tip is to sing, sing while you have life, and live! Here is the excerpt from the song “Se avexe não”, by Tássia Reis:
‘If not
Do not Cry
Don’t linger in this pain
Because I soothe your heart
It’s coming and it’s so beautiful
How much this song ’”
Happy Mother’s Day to all women, professionals and mothers, especially those who make up the KEMPETRO ENGENHARIA team!
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