Do You Have Your Career Builders In Place?

I have never liked doing housework. When I was single I lived in an apartment complex and decided to go for a walk one day because I didn’t feel like doing the cleaning, laundry and ironing that was waiting for me back home.

While I was on my walk, I noticed a woman with a number of children.  I stopped to talk to her and in our conversation she told me she had 7 children.

Being the oldest of 7 children myself, I loved being around kids and offered to babysit for her from time to time so she could go out with her husband alone. I knew it would be hard for her to find a sitter that could handle that many children at once and since I had grown up watching my siblings I knew it would be a lot of fun for me.

She was so thankful but wanted to do something for me in return.  Jokingly I said not unless she enjoyed cleaning, doing laundry and ironing.

To my surprise, she told me that she did enjoy those tasks. She said her favorite time was when her husband took the kids and she could do all those things in peace.  It was her way of meditating.

You can imagine how excited I was when we swapped tasks.  She was near tears that she could go out with her husband alone, and I was thrilled that I wouldn’t have to do these household tasks that I despised.
If I hadn’t stopped to talk to her, I never would have come across this opportunity.

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