My Career

I want to discuss my career with you, may be you will find a solution to my problem. I graduated from collage five years ago, as you know I studied civil engineering. I did not like it and I was dreaming of becoming a surgeon but the educational system we had doesn’t make anyone study the things they like and it all depends on the final exam of the last year in high school which is runs by the ministry of education. the marks you take from that exam will determine your future career, so my average marks was 91.5 % which did not qualify me to enter medicine collage. So I decided to enter civil engineering like my father. I graduated from civil engineering but I did not like it. After my graduation Saddam made a new law forcing all the graduate students to work with the government and in the place the government wants us to work in with a very bad salary not even enough for transportation. The government prevents us from traveling outside Iraq unless we paid a high amount of money as a compensation for higher education fees. I was assigned to work in a place far away from my house and I was pregnant with my daughter so I decided not to join that work. later I worked with a computer office near my house. I gave some lessons for beginners in Microsoft office. Later I worked with my brother in law in drawing some plans using AutoCAD and finally I used to prepare some slide presentation for M.Sc. students and for conferences. the last work I liked very much. After I had birth of my daughter I could not go to work because I had no place to put her in, and I worked at home.
After the war many things changed. The office I worked with had closed. I started reading about web design and I like it very much, but the main problem now is where should I put my daughter if I work? there is no good nursery schools near our house actually there are no good nursery in almost all Baghdad and the one I know is very far and also very expensive just the rich people usually put their children in it. and that is not only the problem because even if I find a job and was fit for putting my daughter in it. I could not, because my daughter might be kidnapped if I put her in that place, second it is a far away school and within these circumstances some times the roads would be closed and I would be unable to bring her home. now I found myself without experience and there is no hope to start looking for a job again since the situation still the same for more than a year. web design is still a new field here so it is not easy to find work even but I like it and it must have a future in Iraq.
this is not only my problem but a problem of a high percentage of Iraqi women which needs a solution.