I am working part time, 9-13 everyday from home (even before covid). My job can be flexible but also demanding, when I am working I usually spend more than half of my time in meetings and video calls.
I have two kids. My 19 months old baby is normally attending to nursery half days. I also have a 6 year old at home, but he is quite good at spending a few hours by himself so not very difficult. My husband has a very busy schedule as well and he is constantly in escalation calls etc.
With the covid, we were not able to send our baby to the nursery as it was closed, and it has been a very difficult 3 months. I used almost all of my paid leave during that time, changed my hours, worked nights, early in the morning etc and somehow managed to go through it.
Nursery reopened last week of June, and just two weeks later my son came home with high temperature. I kept him at home for a week, then he returned as his test result came negative. Two weeks later, today, nursery informed us that there is a covid positive case in another toddler bubble, (not in my son’s bubble but they all are in the same room) and there was another baby sent home on friday from his bubble with high temp, result not known yet.
Now, I want to keep him home this week at least, we don’t want to risk it and regret afterwards. That said, I really don’t know how to manage work and a very active toddler at the same time. My salary is only paying the nursery fee really, I’m only working not to leave a gap in my CV and to keep my skills up to date as working in technology. So I felt quite overwhelmed today and started to thing about resigning. I don’t like the idea that I’m giving up something and this can be manageable if I try harder but I’m under stress, don’t know what to say to my manager tomorrow. I’m already doing little work compared to my teammates as I’m working part time and this is not a very common setup in our company. AIBU to consider resigning?