How to juggle full time working

[hellywelly3]

Posting here for traffic really. I’ve worked part time evenings, weekends etc since having kids 18 years ago. Now all my kids are out of primary school I really want/need to get back to working more hours. I need a bit more of an office based role after a injury makes being on my feet all day very pain. So looking they tend to be 9-5 m-f.
My question is how do people do things like kids dental appointments, doctors/hospital appointments? My daughter goes to the hospital for her brace. What about getting them to after school activities? I’m really struggling to understand how I would do it all. My DH travels around a bit for his job so he’s not really able/willing to do it.
How do you do it? Is it family support? Both sets of grandparents are retired but always say their too busy to offer any kind of childcare.
My husband doesn’t seem to understand how much time these things take up.

Could you try and do 4 days or cut your hours down slightly. It would be much easier for you if you had a day off during the week.

Personally I think too many after school activities is crazy, but there are a few straight after school at so those work as you don't collect until later. Then I would imagine you need a childminder or some flexibility to pop it for the school run in a WFH situation.

Just wanted to say OP, thanks for starting this thread as you've reminded me to take the kids in for their dental checkups before I start work! Managed to get appointments just before I start.