Hustle and Flow.

   The definition of a hustler is a stay-at-home-mom. We are the ultimate multi-taskers and we are bitter we don't get paid for it. Maid services, a laundress, nurses, entertainers, cooks, and teachers are all moms for hire. Society tells us it's not a job unless you clock in somewhere, so to compensate we do things like sell crafts on etsy.com. The problem is our ACTUAL job is so daunting, time consuming and HARD we get side-tracked from the hustle and become severe sufferers of ADHD. We tell everyone we've started a beaded bracelet company and when our darling angels get their hands on the kit and eat all the green beads mistaking them for M&M's we quit. The next week you'll find us advertising our beef curing business, (it's all natural!). We clip coupons, we offer to watch the kids who belong to moms who have "real" jobs, I've even cleaned apartments for the realty company my husband works for...I've become a bleach and Windex expert, I may as well make a couple bucks doing it.
   I have been asked multiple times what I do all day, and worse, single women with no kids tell me they wish they could do what I do all day ie: watch their soaps and eat bonbons all day in a bath robe. While I might wear a bath robe all day, I certainly am not on a forever vacation. We are made to feel small, and we are made to feel like hard work is defined by a paycheck. Sisters, please don't buy into this myth. You are doing something no other human on Earth can do. You are a people company. You make them, and perfect them for market. Your "product", when finished, cures diseases, becomes President, runs businesses, and becomes pilots and engineers.You don't get a paycheck bi-weekly, but this is your life's work! The world literally can't go on without what we do. Not to mention the job security your career offers. Your babies will ALWAYS need their mommy. You don't have a retirement plan that ends in a time-share in Florida, but you will someday see your children have children and from what my mom tells me, there is no greater joy than grand babies.
   I would never fault anyone for bettering themselves, and money makes the world go 'round, but what needs to be understood is what you do now is enough. It is more than enough. You don't need to prove anything to anyone. Your children being alive and breathing everyday are testament enough to what you do. I would never turn down extra cash, and I will continue to hustle from home, but I am doing it now because I want to, not because I feel I have to. Not because someone has made me feel like not getting paid means I'm not pulling my weight. Keep up the good work ladies! You make me proud. You are giving your children a rare blessing, and don't stop selling your baby headbands, but do it because you enjoy it, not because you feel like you need some kind of "real" job. What we do everyday is the most important career of all.