A Day In The Life Of A Housemaid

Waking up early is always a part of the job; you cannot expect your own manager to do the work for you. It might seem like the work of a housemaid is not important, but it is. There are times when the work gets depressing, you want to watch television yourself and just eat popcorn just like what other people do on a rainy day but one has to treat the job like it mattered, because at the end of the day when the sheets have not been changed, the plates have not been washed, the floor is filled with mud and the furniture is dusty you are sure to encounter not only a very dissatisfied boss but a long line of angry family members asking why everything has not been in place. You have to treat your job as something holy, to see it as something sacred because if you will not then you can just easily give up what you are doing and then just go somewhere else.

I am reminded of some house maid character when watching the Downtown Abbey Series; they treat their job as a privilege, with the kind of economy that we have nowadays I am just glad to have something to do. If I come to think of it this is not a degrading job, the family I am working for needs me and they are like a family to me. Aside from having a free lodging I have been privileged to eat enticing food, something that other workers do not even experience, when they are outside the house premises I get to act as if I own the house. I clean every nook and cranny of this mansion and I have memorised where everything is, it is like managing an entire household, they say that mothers are the ones that should be responsible for this but with the fast paced world that we have nowadays even the mother of this household asks me for help. You have to see what you do as something important, even the children rely on me on a daily basis to ensure that they have clothes to wear. Sometimes I imagine what if I am the housemaid of the President of the United States and for some reason I forget to do my job well then everything has a ripple effect, somewhere out there in the world will not get their problem solved if somehow I failed to place the President and his wife in a good mood.

The work is really challenging, before I become a housemaid I did not have much respect for them, you just read about them or pass by them but because circumstances for me have changed I gained respect for the job that I do. Working for 8 hours or more, bending, lifting, vacuuming, changing linens, making beds, wiping, polishing, moping and everything else in between is no joking matter. If there is anything I gain from this one is the fact that I have a much harder time gaining weight.