Early Learning Earning

Hello All,

Have you seen the June 2011 issue of The Franchising World India?  It’s focus is on pre-school education, and particularly for “Womenprenuers”.  These women are often 30 plus, and those who have chosen, or had to give up their careers when their children came along.  At first, the joys of motherhood and being busy with Baby are enough to keep anyone occupied, but then, slowly, you yearn for a change, perhaps, a new career where you can juggle home life and offspring in the hours that suit you.  Then, sometimes, you begin to despair because all of a sudden, you have lost YOU – you have become a homemaker, wife, mother, daughter-in-law – and what a rude awakening when  you realise you have to ask for money from your spouse – and surely, you don’t have to do THAT now, too?! 

Sounds familiar?

While all the above roles can be full time ones and may be fulfilling, it is often not enough if you have been “an office girl” and had tremendous freedom of time and space, perhaps national and international travel and a sense of pride in earning your own money, may be even buying your own home.  Ask me.  I am one of those women. I can identify with you if you feel the above roles are not enough.  I remember reading the Sunday Times in London, UK before I was a mother, where the article was all about career women having children and not being able to carry on with their full time career.  It was good advice, since it said, “You can have it all – but not all at once”; this means, that you will have to compromise on some things if you want to raise your children with all the care, love and affection and good communication skills that can best be obtained by the child’s parents.

Franchising World goes on to tell us that the education sector is fast growing and has less chance of failure than other franchises.  ENTER SMARTTALKERS!  Here, you can become a franchisee, and have full training and legal advice to set up this business anywhere in India.  If you have pre-schoolers, they can also attend the sessions either at home where you may prefer to conduct classes or, if you wish, you may wish to use another premises and deliver there.

So, perhaps, the Sunday Times was wrong.  Perhaps making smart choices about your work with Smarttalkers can resuscitate passion in a new career, a fresh or developing direction in the field of pre-school communication and of course, give us back our pride in earning a wage.  May be you can have you cake and eat it, too…