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To hate working term time?

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Thegrassroots26 · 19/08/2025 17:11

My children are teenagers now and I have always found the holidays hard and draining as a term time worker. Yes, you don’t need to worry about childcare, but you aren’t paid for the holidays (support staff) and it’s just endless - kids at work/ kids at home. There’s never a break from your own kids or someone else’s.

I am trying to find a full time job, but wondered if anyone else has similar struggles in this area. The switch in pace from weeks of tumble weed and to hundred mile an hour term time is also brutal!

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cheezncrackers · 19/08/2025 17:23

This is the first summer holidays when I've worked (kids are teens, I was a SAHM before) and I bloody love it! The endless weeks of boredom are no more. I can recommend it.

LlamaNoDrama · 19/08/2025 17:16

Mine are also teens and this year has been rather boring because no one wants to do anything with me! I might do some volunteering next summer. I wouldn't want to work full time instead though (I can't anyway) and our wages is done so we get paid all year round.