Some people may says, “I salute you.” to me at that time because I’m a mother of two boys. BUT DON’T. It sounds too naive. It’s my GUILTY pleasure. What I need more in the back then was just people to understand me and have empathy with my position both as a mother designer in big tech and why I worked there …………………….. and that’s in Bandung, my hometown which is very rare and it’s the only one opportunity at that time in Bandung and I’ve never worked at a big tech before that.

Turns out, to have mostly the design team in Jakarta -another city -, is different with if you have a full design team in your hometown, at least you have to visit Jakarta periodically -only designers, I didn’t really see this happened frequently with engineers in Bandung-. Sometimes I brought my kids to Jakarta -with hotel facility, tho- and had to took leave of absence over my older son’s kindergarten school (now he’s at Elementary school where taking absence is not as comfortable as when kindergarten)- or had a round trip when I didn’t bring my kids which really exhausted when you come home if you have two kids. No, I can’t leave my kids for work even only for 2 days 1 night. I don’t want to do that. Yes, some mothers are willing to do that.

Just so you know (you who?….well, I dunno, whoever who read this) that that’s NOT A PRIDE. But yes, after that at least I can sell my CV more effectively. One of the advantages is of course to get a remote job from abroad. Although I suspect that other countries don’t really care about local big tech companies here but just in case it has affected their decision in hiring. Whatever I need to have to get a remote job. In the end, this is what I need for a family with two kids. So worked at big tech as a mother of two to me was just ‘a process’ not a final.