After losing a deeply wanted pregnancy, while also dealing with corporate upheaval, Cassandra found herself doing what she calls “mom math.” These are the constantly ongoing calculations a mother makes to take care of…everything, really.
In this installment of Tell Me a Story, Cassandra shares a deeply personal experience about the highs and lows of motherhood and career, and the constant calculations that go into finding work/life balance, with the understanding of how that is an impossible task. Mom math means considering everything, often putting the mother’s needs on the backburner, and being left to clean up the mess at the end of the day.
And sometimes that mess means staying somewhere she probably should have left years before.
At it’s best, corporate America can give you a space to work with purpose, to lift others up and to create a life for yourself and your family. But even at its best, we have to realize the other shoe could drop at any moment and we’ll be a name on a list of people headed out the door.
Cassandra has gone on to create community outside of her day gig, which she talks about a little in this story. It’s a reminder to connect with real community, because your “office family” might not be as loyal as you are.
