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AIBU?

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To want to be able to discuss things with my husband without being spoken to like a child?

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LittleMissGerardBOOOOOtler · 15/10/2013 19:47

I have had anxiety and OCD for years, an I am the first to admit I overreact and overthink things, so if I am being unreasonable please say so, I know you don't hold back :o

I would like to be a Teaching Assistant, and currently work weekends in retail. I have done some volunteering and am starting an online course.

I applied for a temporary lunchtime supervisor at school and started this week.

The trouble is although the money is handy at this time of year and its experience, it means I can't do my other reading volunteering in another school I was doing as I don't have time to travel there and back now, and I can't do some other volunteering in the community which I enjoyed, and I can't do any extra hours in my retail role at this busy time of year.

I feel I have made the wrong choice, and am annoyed with myself as I think I could have had more opportunities and still earned extra money by doing the other things, but OH thought the guaranteed money would be better and I felt I had no choice but to apply.

I mentioned today that I feel I should have stuck at what I was doing originally as I feel I enjoyed it more, and the lunchtime role isn't helping my anxiety as I don't know what I am doing, I have been asking, and even asked for the paperwork I need to fill in and for policies for behaviour etc but I have had nothing yet after asking more than once. I've just been left to get on with it, which is ok and I know I should just get on with it, but I'm really not happy :(

OH just said well that's what working in a school is like, get on with it.

I just would have liked a discussion about what to do, and talk about how I feel rather than be told that.

I'm being unreasonably aren't I? I just need to get on with it and accept I made the wrong choice?

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KepekCrumbs · 15/10/2013 19:50

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WestieMamma · 15/10/2013 19:53

You didn't make the wrong choice. You made A choice. You've learnt from that choice that this particular role is not suited to you so now you have to think about what your next choice will be.

HopeS01 · 15/10/2013 19:54

YANBU, we all need a sympathetic ear sad, even if we are just moaning!

LittleMissGerardBOOOOOtler · 15/10/2013 20:15

Thank you, yes that's all I want, someone to listen at least without making me feel small.

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