I have two young dcs (ages 3 and 6).
I've always worked in hospitality, or in the sort of hospitality side of office work, (not sure that makes sense, but I mean things like office reception or arranging corporate travel or corporate events).
I want a complete change! And maybe I am focusing wrongly on that change needing to be my career.... Wondering if you lovely vipers can help me disect my line of thinking!
I've recently been able to reduce my hours at work so that dcs don't have to go to ASC etc. It works really well for the kids. But obviously, it means now I'm doing more childcare, which I did want. But it's full on, working in a busy, on-my-feet job and then doing more childcare as well. I think I imagined I'd be less tired doing fewer hours, but the opposite seems to be true!
Anyway, I've been looking into qualifying to drive HGVs. Not the massive trucks, but the smaller, class 2 ones. I think I could do it. I love driving and have good spacial awareness. I love being on my own and I already do a very practical, hands on type job (I hated working in offices and wouldn't go back to it). It seems as if drivers are in demand at the minute, it would be a proper career / skill and also I'd be sitting down in silence a lot of the time, which sounds like heaven! I think we could make it work with dcs. Dh does office hours, so on days I wasn't around to do pick up, he would be happy to do it, if they went to ASC. He would do drop off too if necessary, (yes, he is amazing and I'm very lucky).
It seems to be potentially, fairly lucrative as well. Hospitality is great fun, but lucrative it is not!
We have some money put aside and our outgoings are small, so we could afford for me to take time out to retrain. Dh says he doesn't mind if I just quit and never go back and become a sahm, (but I don't know if I want to do that).