Can anyone tell me their experience of working full time as a single mum

[Houseonahill]

I'm a single mum to a very nearly 2 year old, I was working 2 days a week in an admin role but have recently moved to a new area and had to give that job up, I've got a job in a pub here while I look for something else and my mum and dad are having my little girl on the evenings I'm working but have made it very clear this is not a permanent solution and tbh I miss admin work so I am looking for something else.

Where I have moved is very rural so there isn't many jobs and all the ones I'm looking at state full time hours only.

Has anyone got experience of working full time as a single mum to a toddler? How hard did you find it? Does it get easier when they are in school? How did you manage home/work life balance?

TIA

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It gets harder when they’re in school because you have to cover the school holidays...

Me. It was easier in the pre school years when child care was 52 weeks of the year. The primary years were tough and I needed a school with wrap around care, and this is surprisingly inconsistent.

Now that mine are in senior school it is easier as logistically it's easier. But emotionally they probably need me as much as ever.

It take a lot of planning and I spend a lot of time feeling like I do it all by the skin of my teeth.

I work full time with 2 under 5, and I’m a single parent, I drop the kids off at nursery at 8am, pick them up at 6pm (nursery do the school run) and I book time off for things like parents evenings / school plays etc.

It is exhausting and I miss the kids, but I don’t have a choice. I have bills and a mortgage to pay, kids are in nursery 3 days a week with family help the rest of the time.

Evenings and weekends are spent together. It is do-able but wouldn’t be my first choice.

Could you maybe get a part time daytime hours job, with the pub work a few nights to give you a full time wage? Would mean your parents don’t have DC as much, and you’d still get some time with them until they go to school and you can do full time daytime hours?

Hmm thanks for the responses I did think as much but wasn't sure if I was being unrealistic. I don't "need" to work full time, we get by fine on my part time hours I'm just struggling to find a part time job atm.