Would you take this job with a 3 year old?! I’m torn!

Take the job! Congratulations OP sounds like an amazing opportunity

Take it, it sounds flexible, pays well, you can involve your DD in food prep when she gets in or batch cook on Sundays.

Sounds ideal! If you don't like it, you can always quit! Nothing to lose.

Only working six hours a day from home with one kid? Piece of pie.

OP you are over thinking and worrying about this. The socialisation will be good for your child and your said the money will be nice.

We have more than one, hybrid work and work full time with kids who do activities four times a week. We eat home cooked healthy meals every night and our house is clean. You learn to do things more efficiently, get more organised and focus on priorities.

Your situation sounds ideal and easy. Go for the job.

Yes. I’d take the job and get a cleaner to do 2-3hrs a week at £50 so that you can focus on DC and DH when not working. As others say, if you find it hard to manage you can leave, but more often a company will look at reduced hours and other alternatives rather than lose you completely.

It’s a no brainer as far as I can see… but I am sensing a little loss of confidence after not working for 3 years. I’d tackle that if you can? Talk to a friend, get your DH to give you a pep talk etc, but give it a go as I’m sure you’ll get over the confidence hump and the money will cover a cleaner, after school clubs in due course etc

Take the job and have some mental stimulation outside of day to day housework. Your DH will need to do more. You will also be good role modeling for your DD to see you work and see her dad also cook, tidy and clean! You need some independence and financial protection of your own.

I would take it. The flexibility sounds amazing and when DD starts school that will be a priority for you.

Hire a cleaner and get DH to step up.

Your husband/partner will need to take on 50% of running the house, you need to change your mindset - you can't take this job and continue running the house as you have been, you would be doing too much.

Obviously there’s a limit and cut off somewhere but I totally buy into the ‘the busier you are the more you achieve’ mentality. When I was on mat leave I couldn’t see how I could go back to work but I did and it didn’t take that long to adapt. As others have said with it being mainly remote you are around the house to keep on top of things like putting a wash on and online shopping arriving. Despite having a 3 year old i manage to exercise 4 times a week taking 40 mins each time - something that I never would have thought possible but it just requires organisation and discipline.

Do you live in a big farmhouse, or multi story victorian house? Unless so, I don't see why you'd think you wouldn't manage tbh. When you have less time, you get more done. My DD is a LP and works 7am-4pm Monday-Friday. She meal preps before bed and does extra portions when cooking curries/stews etc. How do you think the test of the country manages? I clean and do laundry for my youngest DD, I give her around six hours a week, because I get on with it, it's easily done, but her house is completely uncluttered.

I know a lot of people in this boat, myself included. I've had my job since before covid when we went full time WFH and not gone back to the office. We can go to a local office if we want but most of us don't as we work with international teams and clients who we aren't seeing face to face anyway.

My employer probably gets more than before covid as I don't have to rush for a train home.

After a week or two it will be like you never had time out 🤗

That is a great deal. The lack of commute means it's a bit less time pressures for nursery pick ups and you have a bit more time for cooking and exercise etc. It will feel hard going back after 3 years but tbh it felt hard for me going back after 9-10 months of mat leave! But within a week it just seemed normal again. If you want it go for it, you'll adapt. Good luck!

Not meaning to derail but curious why your 3 year old is in nursery 9-4 if you’re a SAHM. Is it every day? Is there something else going on? I don’t quite understand the picture

That is a great offer and hybrid terms such as those are a rarity. Are you in an industry where you foresee another role such as that coming along? Can you also potentially go down to PT once you’ve proved your worth?

Get a cleaner, gardener and meal prep service in place. You can cut down as you adapt to working life again with kids

You’re spending 7 hours a day cleaning and doing dinner prep?! I’d take the job to just save myself from doing that, it sounds wretched!

You would be mad not to

Why would you have to do everything around the house? Get a cleaner and get your DH (I assume you must have one to be a SAHM now) to do half the rest and it would be a doddle

70k and you work the hours you want?

In the nicest possible way, get a grip love. You’ve one child, who goes to nursery. You can still manage to get to Tesco and stick a washing on.

You only have one child who is already in nursery all day and you only just have time to clean and meal prep and keep on top of stuff? This must be a joke. Also if you don’t need the money you can just quit surely if you regret it so why not try it? Wondering what this 70k job is that allows you to work remotely most of the time and at whatever hours you choose, I think most people would kill for that sort of job!

Fascinated how there are jobs with high salaries like this and you can work when you want. Would love to know what they are getting for their money.

That's a pretty good salary especially after a career break. What work do you do?
OP so many parents manage to work with multiple kids so I am sure you can manage with one.
Outsource so work and you'll be fine.

Absolutely take it, I'd take it at 2 days a week in the office, let alone 2 days a month. Entirely manageable and I don't think you'll regret it at all.

Plenty of people with 3 year old work all week in the office/outside the house, so I agree with PPs it's a no brainer and very manageable.

I totally relate to this. You will find you become more organised with your time. Definitely take the job. You will make it work.

Absolutely do it!

If you don't "need" the extra salary, can you get a cleaner; that will help with the house.

I work fulltime, 3 days at home, 2 days in the office each week. You do have to be on top of things, e.g. prep dinner on your lunchbreak , so that everything runs smoothly but it's very manageable and I don't have a cleaner.

The hardest thing to manage is childcare during school holidays.

It sounds like more going on if she’s in nursery 9-4 and you feel rushed.
I’d take the job and look at what exactly is essential and if need be outsource some cleaning, shop online etc. If you have a DH then he’ll need to do some things you’ve done as a sahm.
Are you doing make work to keep you busy eg instagram style cleaning (I watched a video of a woman washing her walls with a mop daily yesterday!!) ironing, prepping a separate meal for dc etc.