I am coming to the end of my maternity period with my second baby.
When working, I am a higher rate tax payer in greater london.
I can just about return to work when factoring in childcare costs, so basically I would earn £63 per month - full time. Husbands salary pays bills excluding food..just due to huge mortgage and a couple of hundred quid of existing debts.
It's all very jolly to say ah you are a partnership childcare costs should be split, however the opportunity cost of returning to work makes it pointless.
If I go back to work, I will be paying £22000 taxation for someone else to gain tax credits and
I presume have a greater level of disposable cash than me.
That really is an aside...
My real question is, am I being unreasonably to ask, does anyone else work for nothing (full time) for the future of your career, knowing that if you take 5 years out, your skills are obsolete?
How do you motivate yourself?
How do you not feel a little bit bitter?
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IknowImAnArse · 07/02/2014 21:50
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