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Tomorrow I have my first day at a new job. It's at the Regional Hospital in the city I moved to with my family half a mont ago. It's half time. They offered me full time, but working full time if I won't have to is madness.
Instead I'm gonna have this half time steady job, and build on top of that with other jobs on an hourly/day to day basis. Hopefully this gives me a good balance between income and freedom to do other stuff. As a Registered Nurse in Sweden, you currently have as much work as you want to have. We are very sought after. A luxury, in a sense.
I need to find a way of combining my interests with having a child. It's obvious life can't go on like before my daughter arrived, but I don't want to sacrifice everything I hold dear in the name of "caring for my child". I don't think that will benefit her in the long run.
She needs parents that care for her, but at the same time care for themselves. Keeping interests and values alive is keeping an intact and evolving identity, something I want my daughter to have aswell. If I'm supposed to be a role model, I need to live by those aims. Telling her to explore and indulge in things that attract her and at the same time sacrificing my own "attractions" in life will present her with double standards. And it's probably easier for her to mimic what you do, than just do what you tell her to do.
Started reading a text by Susan Sontag. Reached part 4. Will continue later. Found the text over at
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