After deciding I didn't have time for this "How to Balance your Life" group I read Rhonda's latest post and will continue on.
Who else is reading Competing Devotions? This book is very interesting in that it breaks down women into four categories: work schema devotion, family schema devotion, reinventing schema devotion - part-time careers and reinventing schema - family life among full-time executives. None of us like to be put into a category but reading this book you can not help but see yourself and other women you know. I was a stay-at-home mom/student for 11 years (family schema) and now fall under part-time career schema and in school hoping to become part of the family life among full time executives schema. This book is dead on when examining external factors that can contribute to the placement of women in various categories.
As a part-time schema, I find myself straddling two worlds: the work schema and family schema and I don't quite fit into either. That is a big drawback for me. Now that I have added school to the mix I think I am out totally. There simply isn't time for anything but my family, job, and school - goodbye clean house, friends, TJ Maxx, working out, and gardening! Where is the balance?
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maybe it is time to get rid of the schemas! if they do not represent our life, if they do not serve OUR interests, then why do they continue to exist? Yes, we could blame the "big guys" - certainly the interests of those whose profit is increased when individuals are left to figure out how to take care of our family and community at no cost to business - when the labor continues to be invisible even as the entire economic system depends on it. But what about us? When we buy into these schemas - when we get caught up in judging our own lives against these unrealistic ideals - aren't we also reproducing them? Of course, there are costs to ignoring the work schema - income, job security, job opportunity. And there are also risks associated with failing to live up to the domestic schema - what will other's think? will we be seen as negligent, or unloving?
So, how do we get out of this pickle? how do we stop reproducing the very same system that is driving us over the edge?
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