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Parents: How to Add a COVID Career Gap on Your Resume.
Put the shit-show of pandemic parenting to good use.
I really don’t like to discern between parents and non-parents for two reasons.
- All it does it devolve into a shouting match.
- It alienates practically everyone.
The COVID pandemic has put everyone into a personal hellhole, so I’m not going to say which was worse.
Single or married.
Parent or childless.
Young or old.
What I am going to say is that parents had a unique set of problems to deal with, regardless of their child(ren)’s age(s), which required a particular set of skills.
Those skills shouldn’t be sidelined just because you “weren’t working.”
You were working. You just weren’t being paid for it.
Let me repeat that.
Staying home and taking care of your kids was work.
It was super frustrating, endlessly agonizing, eternally exhausting hard goddamned work.
Don’t let all that effort go to waste (aside from, you know, protecting your kids in a pandemic). Squeeze that experience for its lessons and make…
