BRAND YOU MAGAZINE: "3 Years, 2 Babies, 1 Solo Show" // JUN 2023

BEING MADE REDUNDANT WHILE EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT WAS A SHOCK.

Here’s how it changed Georgia’s life as she pursued to live her dream of becoming an artist.

3 Years, 2 Babies, 1 Solo Show

I’m sat in the boardroom, the yellow lights flicker and buzz above me. I’m waiting for it to begin. A little kick comes from inside my tummy, it always makes me smile when my baby kicks but not this time. This time it sparks fear as my redundancy meeting begins.

They awkwardly slurp tea and offer biscuits as we flick through powerpoint slides. I’m eight months pregnant, I don’t have the energy or the will to fight this and they know it, I just want it to be over.

A few months later I’m sat in bed with my brand new baby.  She’s adorable of course and I’m soaking in every eyelash and tiny fingernail. It’s early morning and my husband is frantically looking for an ironed shirt, my old ‘go to’ grey office dress peeks out of the wardrobe and I’m reminded that I’m going to need to job hunt in six months time.

“The thought fills me with dread.”

Squeezing back into that grey dress and doing all the chit chat for another shitty office job I don’t even want. I want to paint, but you can’t just paint pictures and sell them for a living. Can you? ….