Software developer in London (living zone 2/working zone 1), 32 years old, one DS already (11 months).
Have been back in work for 3 months and tbh I'm bored, very little technical challenge in terms of what we're doing and I'd like to try something new. I've been almost 4 years in this role. I took 9 months off last year as maternity leave, went back before the end of SMP.
There's lots of work in my field (I'm a full stack Python web developer with an interest in data science) and my next move should be a significant salary increase, I'm on 37k at the moment and should go to around 50k. But... we also want a second kid and we don't want a particularly large age gap.
So I'm at a crossroads - is it more beneficial to have #2 sooner, take the full year off and have #1 at home that time, or to go for something new and delay having #2 by around 12-18 months? We are not time-crunched yet, we are no spring chickens but time is not really against us yet and we have no fertility issues (conceived DS on cycle #2 and have also had a CP when he was 9 months old).
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TriJo · 23/02/2017 15:28
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