Looking for some advice - pros and cons, experiences.
I've worked in professional roles for over 20 years. I took year long mat leaves but other than that haven't stopped. I've working while my kids were babies and toddlers and now both are at school.
I'm so disillusioned with work. I loved it until recently and loved the company I work for (been here 9 years out of 20). But I feel demoralised, unappreciated and just fed up. I'm caught between desperately wanting to tell them all to fuck right off and just staying on to cruise. I have never cruised but feel it's all I have left and right now all I could manage. I'm highly paid, challenged and get to work hours to suit so in many ways it's ideal. I've completely lost my work mojo tho.
I've started fantasising about giving it all up, becoming a SAHM mum, cooking more, doing the garden. I could never have done this with tiny kids - just not cut out for it. But I reckon I could make it work with school age kids. It's ironic because my SAHM friends are thinking of returning just as im teetering on the brink of throwing in the towel.
I'm terrified of stepping off the career ladder / wheel in case I'm doomed never to get back on.
Has anyone been in this position? What did you do?