Need to escape the classroom

Could you teach adults in a college?

You probably could do this but pay in FE teaching will be significantly worse than you get now.

You’ve actually got a really good deal at the moment 2 days a week, decent take home pay for the no.days and school holidays off. Honestly you’re not going to find that doing anything else. 2 days a week is hard to come by anyway and would likely be minimum wage unless you’re already established in that career. You're unlikely to get the holidays too. There many of us working in stressful jobs with young children, I have 2 young DC in different settings and I work 4 days a week and my DH full time, and I don’t get school holidays off other than the standard annual leave. It’s hard, it’s hard for anyone working but we just have to get through these early years.

Look into it. You might have to put an ad up.

They could come back to the house on those two days and straighten the house up, make the beds, prep dinner. You'd at least come home to a tidy house.

It's very difficult to tick the boxes of part time, flexible, well paid and interesting work. You have to prioritise what is important. Anything else is a bonus.

I actually think that public sector is much better for women than private sector as they are far more accommodating and have far more part time jobs that don't take the piss on the salary.

Have a look at civil service as well.

The ship hasn't sailed. It's just in the harbour for now OP. For now, you've got 3 very young children, a 2 day a week job paying pretty good money and the prospect of changing your career once the children are "up a bit" such as them all being at school. If you really need a break, there is likely to be a Career Break policy which might give you a few months off to get yourself in the right frame of mind to keep going for now until you can change your job if you feel you need to. I would only add that I've seen many news items about the Contracts of FE lecturers not being robust so I'd say do your research and try not to jump out the frying pan into the fire

I would look to pay someone to do the drop offs in the morning.
Get them to come an hour before you have to leave and leave them to do all the leg work.
It will take a little training! It might take a while to find someone. Depends where you live.

In your favour, if you work in a school you have access to a huge community of staff and their contacts. Not just teachers, but site staff, admin staff and catering staff all local. You need to put your feelers out for help with the morning runs. Mention it to literally everyone at work. Someone will have suggestions.

It would then make the world of difference if you could leave home in the morning and focus on your job only, then on return, you leave your job focused on your home only.

Your situation is not going to get more difficult. It will get easier as the kids get older, and it seems quite draconian to leave your job when it might just need some thinking out of the box.

Good luck!

If you work 2 days, presumably another teacher works the other 3? Could you not ask to swap with them if your child has a school play etc?

You don't need 5 days to commit to the house, it's literally 15 mins of an evening.

I think you don't appreciate what you have.

Yes I thought this as well, he is already available to cover the school holidays bar the odd inset day that doesn’t match up, you don’t need two people off in the holidays.

I think there is quite a big market with home schooled children too that wouldn't need to be after school.

In some ways?! In all ways.

You have a husband on a good salary with school holidays.
You work 2 days a week with a great pro rata salary, school holidays, and no work to take home.
You have childcare sorted for your kids, and it will be more efficient from next year.
You have a brilliant cleaner.

It's really just that you don't like teaching children, and you already said you'd be happy to teach adults (so not retraining in an entirely different area).

I'm not sure why you've listed housework as a problem since you have a cleaner, kids and husband are out a fair amount, and you presumably have time for it with 5 days a week off?

But generally you're living most people's dream. Most people don't have all that, and the ones who are closest have a rubbish cleaner or childcare.

@stressedteachersos that's the whole thing about teaching - the term time hours are SO intense, hence the pay is reasonable!

If you want a less stressful job you will need to either take a pay cut or work more hours. If there was a less stressful option with the same holiday and pay we'd have no teachers!

You need to establish WHY you find teaching so stressful. You may find with childcare drop offs with other jobs are just as stressful.

I teach 4 days a week and have 3 kids. On my day off I do my planning and marking whilst the kids are at school (youngest now 8) which doesn't always fit in so I do some work at weekends. Last week I have worked 48 hours due to marking Y11 exams.

What about working evenings in a supermarket or pub? That way you don't need any childcare for the younger two, can do all the school runs, and your DH can manage the bed time. At minimum wage of £12.21/hour you could do 4 evenings a week say 6pm til 11.30pm which is 16.5 hours so £201 a week. The amount you'd save on childcare it would probably be MORE than you get doing 2 days teaching.

I felt the same way you did when the kids were younger. But I've also found they need me more as they are older. Taking them to clubs, being around.
3 of that age is HARD.
But it's not forever. And to have that salary on 2 days a week is ideal.
I earn that working 20-25 hours a week. But I do it because it's flexible.
I could only suggest teaching in the school your children go too as an option. Or hope your OH steps up a bit more.

You almost need to hire a granny to help get them sorted and drop them off in the morning. I know someone who did this after school. I sometimes feel there is a gap in the market for a girl Friday do anything sort of person!

I'd chuck some money at the problem if you can while you work on a longer term plan to get out. Work is so difficult these days that it might be out of the frying pan into the fire.

I wouldn't bother with Ed Psych. That takes forever to qualify.

Might you consider a cleaner as a medium term solution, to clean on the days you're teaching?

I don’t think you’re going to find a term time only job on that salary outside of teaching with flexibility.

How about a change of school or even sector? Secondary or FE might suit you - there’s often more opportunities to branch out simply as the schools/colleges are bigger and you’re not stuck with the same class all the time so you can gain experience elsewhere. Some schools are happy for you to swap non-teaching periods so you can get to school plays etc. (That is very school dependent though!)