Soul-searching question: Which is harder, working for Amazon or raising a child?

When talking about mothers, many people will think of hard work, delicious cooking, nagging, and thrifty housekeeping.

However, there is a group of women who are both civil and military, who educate their children at home and sell goods all over the world. They are good at both career and family, and they are the mothers engaged in cross-border e-commerce.

These mothers compete with their brother-in-law in wits and courage during the day at work , and when they get home from work they have to fight eight hundred rounds with the devil children and the four-legged gold-eating beasts.

Want to know how they balance work and life?

As Mother’s Day approaches, let’s listen to the stories of cross-border mothers!

@Narrator A

Many people don’t understand why women make themselves so bitter and resentful just for giving birth to a baby, as if the whole world owes them something. Wouldn’t it be better to be a free and easy mother?

Yes, I thought so before I had a baby. I naively thought that after giving birth, my mission was accomplished, and I could return to work as if nothing had happened after taking maternity leave, just like a man.

However, the reality is far from that simple...Just as I was typing these words on the keyboard, my child was grabbing the mouse!

@Narrator B

I feel it is difficult to take care of a child. He can't sleep well every day. He poops or pees, cries or makes a fuss. It is basically impossible for you to play with your phone or watch TV.

A previous leader had a child who was about 3-4 years old. Parents were not allowed to use mobile phones or watch TV at home, and could only read books.

The children he brought up in this way really only love to read books. However, I think the sacrifices made by his parents are too great. At least for me, it is too difficult for me to completely give up variety shows and TV dramas.

Being a parent, it is so difficult to consider the impact on children in everything you do.

Amazon doesn’t care. As long as you comply with the regulations, you can make a little money safely.

@Narrator C

It just so happens that there is a strong woman named Xiao A around me. Xiao A is 27 years old and has been working at Amazon for more than three years.

When she first came to Shenzhen, she and her husband looked for jobs together. She found a job with a good salary, but her husband hadn't found a job yet. But plans can never keep up with changes. Just when she was happy about finding a new job, life played another joke on her. She was found to be pregnant.

She was really at a loss at the time, so she told her husband the news immediately. Her husband assured her: "Just give birth to the baby if you're pregnant. It's not like we can't raise the child."

She hesitated. Faced with a little life, she couldn't possibly abort it, but if she chose to keep it, it might mean giving up her job again. In the end, she chose to give up her job and stay at home to wait for the pregnancy.

One month after her child was born, she had to go out to work due to financial pressure. However, many companies were unwilling to recruit people who had just given birth, and she was reluctant to leave her newborn baby, so she finally decided to open an account and start working on her own, so that she could take care of her child and work to earn money.

In this way, she took her child to select products, run around suppliers, and choose logistics companies for shipment. I once asked her if it was not tiring. She said that you will understand when you have a child. Now she works hard to make money just to give him a better growth environment so that he will not suffer the same hardships as me in the future. Every time she feels that she can't hold on, she looks at her child and instantly feels like a chicken blood. Mother's love is really great!

@Narrator D

I am writing this with tears in my eyes. After having children, I came back to work for Amazon. The feeling is hard to describe for those who have not experienced it.

It's really hard to strike a balance between career and children.

Especially when the children were young, when I got home after working overtime, I was so tired that I couldn’t eat and just wanted to go to bed. But as soon as I fell asleep, the children started to make a fuss, which really made me angry and sad.

Especially because I have small breasts, my child could only grow up drinking goat milk powder. He was malnourished since childhood and became a bald head before he grew up.

Maybe it’s because of my job, the first word my child said when he was just learning to speak was not “Dad” or “Mom”. Instead, he said: “Your store is gone, your store is gone.”

I don't have time to discipline him, and I couldn't stand it anymore last night, so I sent him to the United States to be fostered by my relatives.

Before I left, I gave him an English name, Jeff Bezos.

I hope that the children whom I failed to educate well can grow up to be successful people on the other side of the ocean.

@Narrator E:

Before I had a baby, I had relatively free time to arrange my schedule. I could even work overtime all night when I wanted to, and I could go out and play as I pleased.

However, after having a baby, my schedule has to be adjusted according to the baby's schedule. If he doesn't sleep, I can't sleep. I try my best to coax him, hoping that I can reply to emails after he falls asleep. But I often fall asleep while accompanying him to sleep, and secretly regret it when I wake up the next day...

@ Narrator F:

From my own experience, after returning to the workplace, I had to work during the day and take time to pump milk during breaks. At night, I might have to rush home to breastfeed and take care of the baby before finishing work.

After the baby falls asleep, I have to turn on the computer and start working. When the work is urgent, I have stayed up until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning for a week. After sleeping for more than 2 hours, I have to feed the baby. After sleeping for more than 1 hour, I have to get up and go to work. After a day, I am exhausted.

In fact, there are essential differences between work and raising children, and it is really difficult to compare the two.

Work is a part of life. It creates value for us, brings us economic income, and is the economic foundation of people's lives.

What about raising a baby? It is an extension of our life, an independent individual with strong vitality. From infancy to early childhood, adolescence, puberty, adulthood and work, this is the law of life operation and a complex project.

Also, work and raising children bring different experiences and gains. Work is a model, while raising children is a vital systematic project. I feel that the relationship between the two is organically combined. They are both important and inseparable parts of life. They are neither contradictory nor isolated. They complement each other and are interrelated, and together they constitute the source of our happy life.

Source: Zhiwubuyan Cross-border E-commerce Community