At the end if 2019, dh worked a half hour commute away and I worked evenings. Now, he is wfh and I have changed career. I have done well-ish and received a promotion. I now have an hour/hour and a half commute and work shifts. It is an excellent opportunity to work in a top performing site under an amazing boss i will learn loads from. I really really dont want to leave. I absolutely love it and love having a career again after so long working bar jobs and minimum wage so the travel, while annoying, is worth it in career terms, with the opportunity to switch closer once I am more established.
Dh will have to go back to the office at some point, initially probably for one day a week and my boss has agreed to one stable week day off as part of the rota to facilitate this.
On to childcare... two teens of gcse age who will be absolutely fine. If dh is in the office then he gets home.at around 7, although I have argued he previously got home at 6 so I could work. This was agreed with his boss back then but now it is one day only in the office she may not see it the same? If I am on early, then i get home around 7. If i am on lates, i get home around half ten. On the face of it, as i am covering home on the day he is at work it seems fine, but what about when he goes back more days?
The problem is the ten year old. Yr 6. She will walk home if needed but it is almost 2 miles and she hates it and in september WILL be walking home, justin's the teens do, again about 2 miles. Gets in around 4.
Should we have the older teens to adjust their schedule to make sure one is home for her? One especially tends to get detentions so will not be able to do that if he is in dt. (Whole mother thread!) The other would have to curtail his social life a little plus is autistic but high functioning.
Plus the teens dont always get along with the 10yr old and dh and i are too far away to pop him in a lunch break (not that i get one ha!)
The teens are too old for a nanny or au pair. And the 10yr old will be too old for childcare in september as there are no after school care, obviously.
Do I just have to give up my career after just getting it back, or put it on hold?
Solutions would be appreciated!