The ongoing debate concerning whether the 21st Century woman can really have it all is only gathering more steam. Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, who was ranked thirteenth on Forbes’s Power Woman’s List, wrote that women simply can’t have it all. Instead we just pretend that we do.
Although this may seem depressing to most of us, perhaps we need to stop asking whether we can have it all and instead concentrate on being happy in both our work and home environments.
One aspect of the modern corporate world which women find most difficult is that many jobs require working and sometimes living away from the family home. Being away from our children or partners can often be distressing and adjusting to living separately from your creature comforts can seem a bleak prospect.
However this does not mean that you can’t have it all!
Instead of suggesting that women can’t have a career and a happy home life, we need to concentrate on learning how to be happy in both environments. For the times when it is not possible to collapse into our own beds at the end of a long stressful day it is important to create a home from home, and here is how:
- Take photographs with you: now that we are so immersed in a world of smartphones and digital cameras, many people neglect the importance of having printed photographs. By making sure you have physical copies of your most treasured memories, you can instantly make an alien environment that bit more comforting
- Make sure you have great bedding: although in a work apartment you can’t pick the wallpaper or the carpets, bedding can make all the difference and make the place really feel like your own
- Don’t compromise on comfort: it is essential that you feel comfortable when you are far from home so make sure you stay somewhere you are happy with. Executive Serviced Apartments specialise in luxury serviced accommodation for corporate clients and can find you somewhere tailored to your particular needs so it’s definitely worth considering
- Never have an empty fridge: living and working alone can be lonely business … particularly when you come home to an empty fridge. Even if you don’t plan to eat there, keeping stocked up with milk, cereal and tea and coffee will make you feel much more at home and banish those pangs of isolation