Reconciliation of role clichés, work & family: outdoor mom in Canada

Marlene Walsh is responsible for outdoor activities in guest relations at a large hotel and is Mother a little daughter. how does she manage Career and child? And how does she deal with female role stereotypes?

The job requires full use

The station touristique Duchesnay is a large leisure and hotel complex about 70 KM north-east of Quebec City, which offers its guests numerous leisure activities:

Kayaking and canoeing, climbing, segway driving or animal watching. A program, therefore, which Marlene Walsh calls for full commitment.

No 9-5 job

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This extensive program too to plan and coordinating for the guests is the job of Marlene Walsh, who is Assistant to the Head of Activity. Not a 9-5 job, as she says:

"The wishes of the guests, but also injuries or changes in the weather take no account of the end of the day and family planning."

Serenity against stress and female roll clichés

On the contrary, the hotel experienced the biggest rush at the weekend: "Then most of the day trippers come from Quebec City and things can get really stressful," reports Marlene.

How does she manage these working hours with her Family to agree? The biggest secret seems to me to be Marlene's composure - also in relation to female role clichés:

Outdoor camping at -30 degrees

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When I ask her if she has any special wishes for the photo that I want to publish of her, she says sympathisch: "Oh no, just take a picture of me as you want, I'm not a Barbie doll."

And in winter she sometimes does outdoor camping at -30 degrees Celsius. “Building an igloo and then crawling into the sleeping bags is the right thing to do Fun' she replies to my horrified cry.

With love for the job

It is precisely in such moments that one notices the love for her job. And that they are dealing with People is used to in nature: "I already looked after children's camps as a teenager and that also in the Study keep going," she tells me.

And she is trained for this, because Marlene has studied physical education in Canadian New Brunswick to become a sports instructor.

No wire rope act

But she never really worked as a teacher, but immediately accepted a job as an animator: "I just love being outside," says Marlene, who also lived with her family in Quebec City for a while: "But it was in the city for me just didn't like it, ”she says, although the city is relatively small.

So that Everyday life is not a tightrope walk, the proximity between home and work is a great help for Marlene - for example with childcare, as she explains: "Before, I had to drive 70 kilometers every day, that was more difficult."

Child care regulated by the state

Today, she and her husband, who can work anywhere as a freelancer, to organize. Therefore it was not Problemthat Marlene is back at her full-time after 50 weeks of maternity leave Workplace returns:

"Our daughter is in a $45-a-week state daycare, that Money let yourself light bring up.”

Double income as a financial necessity

For Marlene her job, the fact that the family is a double Income but also a financial need: "We just bought a house, we couldn't have afforded it without my job," she reports.

As compensation, she sometimes goes on canoe trips in the Canadian wilderness for several days with her family: "We don't see or hear anyone for several days, that's wonderful."

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