Make It Work
Laid Off One Month Before Giving Birth: How Make It Work Was Born | Sarah Wong on Community At Work
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I lost my job one month before giving birth.
It was 2022. I had just moved back to Singapore from the US with an 18-month-old and a second baby on the way. I still remember sitting in a half-furnished flat in the heat, eating instant noodles in my singlet with my hair in a messy bun, wondering who I was now that the job was gone.
My career had been such a big part of who I was. When it was…