If you work, but also take your kids to school and pick them up, what do you do?

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I'm considering a career change for when my kids go to school, that will allow me to drop off and pick them up.
If you are able to do this, what job do you do??

I make and sell crafts. I don't quite meet your criteria though as dp does drop off two days a week, on those days I start very early so can work two full days a week.

I work in an admin role 9.30-3.15 and its 4 miles from my children's school. I'm very lucky that I found the job and they were willing to be flexible with me about timings.

I'm in an admin role too, school hours and with flexi too so in many ways totally perfect for them being small.
I am hoping that once they move to secondary school I'll be able to pick up something more senior that doesn't pay peanuts.
Before and after school provision is very limited (not flexible and oversubscribed), so I'm a bit stuck for the next few years.

Civil servant.

I have flexi and my husband works shifts, so when he's in work, I do slightly shorter days so I can drop off and pick up the DC.

I work longer days when he's off and can do the childcare drop-off/pick-up, so it balances out.

I also work very close to home/childcare so there's no long commute to factor in.

Support worker. Start at 9 and finish at 3.

Senior administrator for third sector organisation. It helps that my children are on a school bus so I am free to leave earlier than a normal school drop off and get home later than school closing time. I am also good at being flexible with my employer so can login from home etc. to meet additional needs as required. Give and take on both sides.

NHS admin 9 -3. And I work close to home - about 3 miles.

I’ve got a job interview for an admin job 9.30-2.30pm 4 days a week, which would enable me to do drop off/pick up/after school taxi. I’m not sure it’s ideal though - means I will need 4 days a week of holiday childcare although I’m only paid for 20 hours. Still hope I get it though!

I currently work as an SMSA which is after 5 and a bit years i am done and need a career change hit all the fit in around kids, half term off, 9-2/2.30 jobs are like gold dust

I work in child mental health. I retrained when my kids were very small. I work part-time term time and do drop off and pick up 4 days a week. I feel very lucky to have a good job that actually works with being a parent.

Another civil servant here. I take 5 days a week and pick up 3. Also just gone to a 42 week contract.

I work part time as an administrator, 9.30-2.30 4days a week. Allows me to drop them both off at school / nursery and be home for school finishing. Still need a childminder for after nursery for the 3yo and we need to cover school hols between us

I work in finance at a school however my commute is a 15min walk.

It's not so much the role imo, but whether the job has flexi hours etc & location/commute is a big one. DH works in the city but can often do pick ups & drops off as he works from home sometimes & doesn't start until 9.30

I'm a locum GP - I dont pick up every day as sometimes doing 8-6 but if just working a morning session (9-1) generally make it for 3pm pickup

I get most of the school holidays off too

Self employed cleaner here...

I do exactly the same job and hours as lornathewizzard. My boss doesn't mind when I work as long as the work gets done so I can chop and change if I need to but I tend to stick to the same hours.

I'm a childminder. I do all the school runs, and take little mindees to assemblies, sports day etc as it's excellent to prepare them for going to school!
We can't afford for me not to work and this way I can earn money and be there for the DCs.
However, there are downsides (long hours, not great pay, no job security, ofsted to name a few!) so once my youngest child moves to secondary I will probably look for a different job.

I work in a role in the public sector that's 100% flexible. It's still what I trained in, environmental impact assessment. Pay not as good but I'm very lucky

I have a professional, office based job. But my employer allows employees to choose a reduced schedule for a proportionate reduction in salary. All our work is project based, so it just means I take on fewer projects.

I work in Marketing. I currently do 8.30-4 with a half hour lunch break three days a week but when DD starts school I'll switch to 9-2.30 with a 5 minute lunch break 4 days a week. Same number of hours just spread over 4 days.

Self employed. I make and sell crafts.

Community Occupational Therapist

I drop off every day, pick up 3 days a week.

Bid writer.

I work in IT. Lots of parents use flexible working, such as coming in later, leaving earlier, doing some work from home in the evening after the children are in bed. Some people have a formal agreement with HR, others have more informal agreement from their managers, depending on how much flexibility they want.

We have been asked in the past by HR to avoid everyone arriving for 9am, because it causes queuing traffic and increases pollution. But it also works well for working parents. Not all departments can be as flexible e.g. reception staff can’t work from home, and the front desk should be covered from 7am to 6pm, but most of the rest of us can sometimes work from home or start and finish at different times. Our old HR director used to say, "work is an activity, not a location."