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This Woman’s Worth

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I am the daughter of a working-class housewife and a middle-class small business owner. I was born in the 70s and grew up to believe that hard work for fair pay was as much a woman’s right as it was a man’s. I worked hard at school and didn’t question progressing to university. My first job was, at age 11, delivering newspapers to half the village before school five days a week, for which I was paid £5. I progressed to waitressing at the village pub and revelled in spending my hard-earned cash at the Metro Centre twice a year. I think I was one of the last cohorts who enjoyed a free higher education and graduated with a small overdraft that I bounced in and out of as I stepped into a career. I didn’t go home after I was 18, so I always had a job, or two, to pay the bills. In fact, since I was a papergirl there has only been one year when I haven’t earned money. That was the …

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

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I haven’t written here in nearly four months. I know that breaks so many rules about blog writing and believe me, I’ve been beating myself up about it for a few weeks now.  I’ve been busy and I should have blogged about all the things that have been keeping me busy but instead they distracted me, so just to mention them and to justify my silence.  In the last four months… I got a full time job in a very special design agency that is like a family that I really love being a part of, see Publica.   As it happens, half of my role is to be a copy writer so let’s just set the record straight right now, I have been pursuing my dream, just not here. My son turned five and started school, funnily enough the same week I started working full time hours.  If you are a mum with children in school you will know how this will have gone down.  Oh and also he got a sickness bug that lasted a week after four …