SECRET RESUME

Mothers today, most of them, go out to Work. To do that, they need to have a professional resume to compete for the job they want. What her employer does not know is the secret Resume every working mother has, a resume that defies Quantum physics. Mother is a sort of multinational that deals with all fronts. She has the ability to both divide and multiply her self, and to be at two places at the same time. Pure Quantum physics. Mother’s capability to handle successfully all fields includes:​

· Teacher Assistant: Homework, maps, science lab that does not fit in the school bus, math’s book sold out, King Lear by heart! reunion in school at five, Periodic table! also by heart, gym uniform left at home run to school, and that one thing that kids always need to take to school on Monday and remember about Sunday night.

· Organizational Psychology: kids, husband, mother, mother-in-law, husband’s family, own family, dog, neighbors, the school bus driver, the maid, and there do exist some that loose their minds and add to the scene a secretary or a messenger.

· Health and Marketing. Nutritive food, well cooked, tennis, piano or guitar lessons, broken leg, fever not at two o’clock in the afternoon but at two o’clock in the morning, baby teeth, acne, menstrual pains, constipation and all sort of accidents.

· Local Repairs: Pick up the iron, find bath humidity, wash the carpet again, who let the dog in with wet feet!?, call an electrician, find out how they manage to brake the washer machine, fix the bike and the foot-ball, and water the plants.

· Events Management and Promotion: husband´s dinner for twenty, first communion with the family, forty, celebrations of coming on age, graduation and marriage, annual birthday per capita, send invitations, confirm assistance, God forbid I forget to call my mother-in-law, tea with friends, and husband’s dinner. The latter has two different applications that, nevertheless, have in common that both must be delicious and leave him satisfied.

· Accounting and Finances. Budget for food, shoes for this one, drugs for that one, daughter’s graduation dress, Friday’s birthday present, tomorrows party, local repairs, health insurance, save for the future, and… the flat wire.

· Maintenance. Manicure, hair done, dentist appointment, pick up mammography, try think doing something about cellulites, fix tonight’s dress, yoga, gym or sport, that guy did not understand how I wanted my hair! five minutes to be ready.

Mother’s real expertise, however, is to do all the above in a single day… besides her job work. Multinational Mother serves round the clock. Mother has no excuses. Every day her Secret Resume shines from dust to dawn. Young or old, rich or poor, black or white, tall or short, healthy or sick, mothers are a multinational that deals with all fronts. Mother is sure presence, present attention home delivery. She covers everything and is everywhere. Pure Quantum physics. Should their everyday work be measured in all its indoor and outdoors extension, they should be paid double that any other human being but, certainly, never less. /Silvia Davila MM

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