I've posted on here before regarding this matter but now I have a definitive answer.
Back story: I work miles away from where I live in a job which requires me to use my degree. It's fairly well paid and I have a pension and holidays/sick pay and all those kind of things.
Dp works self employed and has no fixed work pattern. He can work any number of hours in any given week but he is contracted so has to take the jobs when they come. They often involve early morning starts and very late pm finishes.
We have two young kids, both attend the childminders where I live. Downside is I have to be on the road for work at 8am and don't pick them up from CM til 6pm. All this has been fine. Up until now.
My oldest has been accepted at my second choice of primary school. If he was accepted at my first choice the childminder could have picked him up as she does pick ups from there anyway. The second choice is in a completely different direction from my CM's. I will still have to be on the road for 8am come September. But I won't have time to go one way to get oldest into breakfast club, get youngest off to CM's and be at work on time. Even in the eventually that that could happen - it really isn't feasible - I would have no one to pick oldest dc up. I don't get back to my home town til 6pm and I have to be picking youngest up from CM. The after school club finishes at 5:30pm. I have asked my employer if I can finish work earlier. Not possible in the role I do and I can see why from their point of view.
I'm in panic mode now. I've worried about the whole school saga for the last 12 months now and I thought getting an answer as to what school DS is going to would give me some relief but instead the reality is kicking in. I need to get another job closer to home don't I? The sort of job I do doesn't come around very often. I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place 