Flexible Jobs If You Care for Aging Parents | Naukri Mitra
Somewhere between the 9 AM stand-up call and the 4 PM diabetes medicine reminder, a lot of working Indians quietly become project managers for two lives at once — their own career, and an aging parent's health, mobility and daily routine. Nobody hands you a handbook for this. You just start missing calls during your mother's physiotherapy session, or rescheduling a client meeting because your father's blood pressure spiked again. If this sounds familiar, you are not failing at either job. You are doing what is increasingly called "sandwich generation" work, and the good news is that the Indian job market finally has more genuine flexible options than it did even five years ago — you just have to know where to look and how to ask. Understanding the Sandwich Generation Squeeze The term sandwich generation describes adults — usually in their late 30s through 50s — who are simultaneously supporting aging parents and raising their own children, often while holding ...