How my single Mum affected my career choices
Mitch King
Talent Acquisition at Fleet Space | Space-enabled technology to revolutionise mineral discovery, defence capabilities, and space exploration
My parents divorced when I was a teenager but I’d been mostly raised by my Mum even before they were divorced, so Mum can take any of the credit given out for any positives about me. I’ll take the blame for all the negatives.
Dad was a pretty absent Dad, as a shift worker that was often outside of his control but I guess the best example I could give was during my peak basketball playing days.
I was playing representative level basketball and would go on to win MVP of that team (humble brag). One day getting ready to leave for a game and Mum asked Dad if he was coming.
“There’s only so many times I can watch a basketball go up and down a court” he said and returned to reading the horse racing guide.
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9 个月Mitch King Argh the feels. I had a similar-ish experience and one of the biggest motivators for me is to be able to earn enough to take mum on a holiday and just make sure that she doesn't need to stress about money anymore. Like you, I saw mum working two jobs (both didn't pay too much) trying to juggle it around school hours and pick up etc. Only now as a mum myself do I realise how f**king hard that must have been. Respect for the solo parents out there ??
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9 个月Your mum sounds awesome Mitch.
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9 个月Hey Mitch King , that link is giving 404 error ??