I’m struggling badly at the moment.
I am married with a beautiful 1yo and pre baby I worked in marketing for the past 20 years
I earned well buy DH earns slightly more.
When having LO, despite our good wages, we would be worse off with childcare financially and also I wanted to spend more time with her and thus gave up my role as it wasn’t possible to go part time and work nights in retail
I HATE it!! I love spending time with LO and seeing her grow infront of my eyes but when it comes time to go to work, i just want to curl up and cry. I have an amazing team of workers and the job itself isn’t terrible but I miss working within an office environment and I spend my nights, getting home at 11-12am then spending my only free time to myself researching ideas how to be sble to spend time with LO and do what I studied years to do.
The only glimmer of hope I have/had been holding onto was the thought I could go back to a similar job PT when LO goes to nursery but every time i talk about it, DH cuts it down saying it would be impossible as there’s going to be next to no jobs she to accommodate the “free time” I’ll have when LO is in nursery or even school. I never felt so sick in my life hearing that.
We have no help in the way of family for childcare and can’t afford a carer
I just feel like everyday I’m feeling more and more depressed thinking I’m going to be stuck in a shop job working nights from now on and by the time I’m able to go back to work, I’m going to be too old that it will be tricky to get employment.
How did others handle this. I’m trying to make the best of a bad situation but it’s hard and can’t see any solutions 😢
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Abigail333 · 25/11/2019 00:59
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