The thrilling confession of Kosovo woman who works as a cleaning lady with the law faculty committed

She has paid for her studies from her job, owns her car, and has several members.

I've been working in this sector 12-13 years. Since I was a little girl, I had a time in front of the apartment and as a child I'm watching over it. I went to help them as a child to buy them at a store or erase their apartment. Then I walked around with my chips a lot. I paid for this family. Massey wife and wife I started working privately”

He's 29 now. He graduated from the Jurydic faculty at Pristina University and continues to work in the cleaning sector. He's got a degree in his drawer. But still, she's fully engaged.

Linda has never worked as a lawyer, but for more than a decade she has found herself at a highly friendly market for women. She had to work to support herself and her family. This sí has allowed space to never engage in the law.

I finished law school at Pristina University. I applied in every country, but because I can do practice, I can do a job. The practice I could tell that I've worked and my family is depending on me, She says of the ZA magazine, which was published on the site of Atifete Jahjaga Foundation.

In the cleaning sector it works seven days of the week. Rarely does it stop. She's the only one with a job in her family. The only financial support outside of what you earn is his father's pension.

I'm always working. It's been a part of my life. I keep my family. For eating and drinking. Seven days of the week's work is a difficult bajagi but I'm not that worried. I'm gonna need the money, and that's what motivate me”.

The cleaning sector is among the sectors with the longest working hours and lower wages in Kosovo. According to research “This category includes women who work in the retail sector, hairmaker, tailoring, and culinary.

Linda has two regular jobs, one at a private marketing company and the other as caretaker for children of a couple in Pristina and even maintenance of their home. Five days of the afternoon is engaged in the company, while on a traditional regular schedule from 8 to 5, Monday on Friday, she cares for two children and their home. On weekends, she engages by working on demands.

Every day at work, every afternoon at work. Yet, wages are not satisfying in relation to the volume of work. “ She says.

Linda cleans up other people's houses and somebody's offices. He's been doing this job for over a decade. Life is provided by shining clean shelves. So far, everything sounds fine. She works and wins!

But... there's always one in this. I was able to get an interview for ZA magazine anonymously. She did not demonstrate her true identity because she carried the burden of prejudice.

She says she wants to remain anonymous. “due to prejudiced people. Because of the circle. I'm being tried by people... You with a faculty, you need a principal, not a pass. But for the work I do, I'm very proud and satisfied. As long as you don't beg anyone, I'm proud of”

Wrincing his arms in regret gives the excuse behind his decision of anonymity when asked to give an interview that would be made public. Linda sacrificed her true identity for the sake of her family.

Personally, I'm not even impressed, but my family feels bad. Even though they don't cure me because we eat from this salary. They could've given me school, but this is my only job.It's been a long way to find it.” She concludes by folding a white sheet ahead. That was the signed contract that guaranteed him to hide his identity.

There is precisely this prejudice over this profession that makes Linda cautious about public appearance. Work in the cleaning sector is prejudged. She is not the only woman invited to be interviewed for this magazine. All the answers have been negative by not accepting even the option of anonymity. And over reasoning again weighs prejudice.

The cleaning sector may not be the best job for Kosovars, but Linda really appreciates her work. The community on the other hand may prejudge a woman who cleans the homes of others, but she also appreciates their work.

It depends on people. They are not all the same. I don't have a bad experience. I'm glad. If it weren't for people who were prejudiced, you'd have done nothing about one thing. And absolutely, I had no problem. I've got a lot of freedom in the work I've done”.

At his beginnings, there is only one thing that has plagued him when he went to work. But experience has taught him some lessons.

I've mostly been plagued by the fact that people didn't shake my hand when I was in their homes and wipe me off. I've been through this for a long time. I thought: What do I have? Am I unclean just because I'm sweeping in there? Did they just tell me: “What a box?” But as time went by, I realized that this is just the way they communicate and they're going to do nothing with me., says she laughs aloud.

Linda works 13 hours a day seven days a week, and still she has found time to start her studies at a university branch. His dreams were half gone once. She never wanted to be a lawyer. In fact, she loved the nurse. And that dream she's already doing by continuing her studies at second grade, thanks to the work her circle is doing.

I've studied it now. I pay my nursing school. As a child, I had dreams. But when I had to choose to go to college I needed a nurse, but my family didn't drive me into this profession. I finished law without wanting it. And I always said that without taking over the nurse, they'd never let me have it”.

Somewhere cleaning up, listening to online lectures, is now in the second year of nursing studies at a private university in Kosovo.

She left the country where we were doing the interview to accompany her cancer - stricken aunt to the hospital. Linda also helps him financially to cope with his illness.

Employment is essential to guarantee women's economic independence. But still, they face obstacles. According to the research mentioned above by the Riinvest Institute, 37% of private sector women complain of low pay rates. And that's not the only obstacle.

The importance of cleaning sector workers has never been stressed enough. Whenever we are on the street or in the office, we are impressed by uncleanness, but not by individuals working in this sector to create clean, healthy environments for us. All who clean our homes and offices make life easier and enable us to devote ourselves more to our affairs. They deserve better conditions as well as our unconditional gratitude.