On Being a Female Cliche
The writing was on the wall that 2018 was going to be difficult. By December of 2017 the sun, moon and stars had aligned and trouble was in the forecast. My mother’s cancer had returned for the third time and spread. My company had lost its last retainer client. So by New Year’s Eve, I knew that I was going to lose a parent and a job before that time next year.
I got back into the corporate world after three years of consulting and felt that I just needed to put some time in with a company. I said yes to the first company who would hire me. I wanted to use the underpaid job as a springboard to a better job. Even though I had worked as a consultant, built and exited a business, served as an elected official, getting hired as a 49 year old woman was an absolute bitch.
