The hours for each were flexible as long as she met her goals, no-one cared when or where she worked, she says. White quickly secured a part-time role as a digital marketer for a skincare brand, and later took on other contract jobs at different companies, all of which she found through the platform. Through online research, she came across The Mom Project, a platform linking women to full- and part-time flexible job opportunities, and realised there might be a way she could spend more time with her baby and keep working. I wanted to maintain my identity and trajectory as a working person.” 'I had a lot of angst and hesitation about voluntarily stepping out of the workforce.
'I was hesitant to hit pause,' she recalls. US-based White, who with her husband, has a blended family of four kids, began exploring ways to downshift professionally and spend more time at home. But a couple years ago, when she had her second child – a baby boy, whom she knew would be her last – she had a change of heart. She loved her job, and was proud of the career she'd built. For most of her professional life, Becky White wouldn't have considered leaving her role as a marketing executive for part-time work.
