Hello,
Apologies that this is not really an AIBU but I know this board gets a lot of traffic and I would be interested to hear others experiences please.
I work in a professional role and a little over 2 years ago, I relocated with my child (single parent) to take a promotion. Nice area of the country, good job but a big leap of faith as I knew no one. My child started school (reception) and so far, so good. Then the pandemic came. Like thousands of other parents I worked at home while trying to support a young child. I was offered a position in the area we had left and as I still had a house / friends here, after just 11 months I moved us back.
It took about 3 months to realise I had made a horrendous mistake. Career wise and also we currently live in a v expensive area of the country so buying a better sized home, improving our general QOL is not within reach. The opportunity to move back to my previous dept / role has been raised by my previous employer. No guarantee I would get the job as would be interviewed etc as part of usual recruitment processes. If I do apply and get the job we would have a much better QOL,better promotion opportunities for me but I feel horrendously worried about moving my child again who is now currently year 2 and very settled here. My exP has no contact with our child and I have no local family support in either location although we are a bit closer to family where we are at the moment.
Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do?
Sorry this is a bit long. Thanks for reading this.