to be really excited about going back to work.

[ranting]

People keep looking at me like I'm mad when I tell them that (apart from dh) who seems to share my joy. One woman at the school gates looked at me like I was from a different planet.

Honestly!

No,work is great for your soul.Have you been on mat. leeave?
I've been off ill for 6 weeks and am gagging to get back.

Yep very long mat leave. Dd is 5

Lordy!
Best of luck.

i do love work too. but you must have been away a while ranting if at school gates?

md i hope you are on the mend. not a lead swinger so it must be bad.

I don't blame you.

I love getting out to work!

Make me feel good about myself

What're you going to do?

I'm ok thanks Fishie.
Wasn't physical, was to do with shit that union had to get involved in (than God for unions!) and was advised by them to tow the line and do what Occ. Health suggested.

My house is sparkling,garden pristine,freezer crammed to the top, MSc essays done and boy am i sick of these 4 wallls!!

Yep, I worked with ds (up 'til I had dd actually) so have previous experience of doing the working mum bit. Except this time, am not doing it by myself and we won't need childcare.
Start on Tuesday and I'm beside myself with excitement.
But my friend just said 'Well won't you feel guilty' and I just don't, not at all. Is that strange, do you think?

Guilty???
Eh?

I think grown women who sit at home all day while their children are schooled have rather more to be guilty about meself....

I wnet back to work full-time 2 months ago.....love every minute of it and dont feel guilty one bit!! mind you, my mum is a CM so I think that this does help!

WOS, it's only clerical, it's in the same business (now owned by a different company) that I worked for before, except I'm starting back where I was 19 years ago, rather than where I left off.

This doesn't deter me though, I really only want to stay for a couple of years to afford to retrain for something else.

I met my ex c/minders MIL in town last week.

I was buying sweets for me & my pal in the office..

the woman saw my stash of sweets & assumed they were for my children.... she said: "I always maintained that once parents started to work they started to spoil their children, it must be the guilt!"

I had to bite my tongue very hard. Fucking bitch.

good not sickly md. it is lovely to be away from work in spring though (even in wales?)

ranting are you going back to same job?

Agree with Moondog.
Guilt ?
Whats that ?
Have not felt it. Not about work anyway.

Whaddya mean even in Wales??
This is the best place in the world to be in spring!

cripes wos you must live in a very small town, how rude.

xpost ranting, i bet you will be a lot more than that. ask for payrise once you are past probation or i will haunt you forever.

No, not the same job, it is nowhere near as well paid as the job I left, nor does it carry the responsibility. But I don't really want to go back to my old job tbh, I don't miss that job (miss the money .)
But I do want to do something else eventually, so now I can afford to look into other options I will do that. My thinking is that once you have a job it is easier to get another job iyswim.

sorry Wales, where did that come into it ?

I was clawing at the door to get back to work (but then I'm not in Wales either )

do you have flowers then

i spent several spring half term hols in wales and it was not for softies.

Yes, very small rural village.

Ranting, it is never only clerical... it is something you will do, yours

My c/minder brought the kids in to see me on Friday & I felt kinda strange... my two worlds meeting or something like that? It was weird in a way.

Anyway, give you a week & they'll wonder what they ever did without you!!!

'it is lovely to be away from work in spring though (even in wales?)'

Fishie's comments.

My kids have been swimming today in Llyn Padarn in llanberis!

Actually I was offered a job with a well known high street bank and they offered me a lot less money for 10 hours more work, than this will pay. So am happy about that.
Considered the bank job, was in the finance dept before I left but I don't really want to go into banking or back to finance really.
Need to look into what I want to do and then try and get appropriate quals etc for that.
Can probably afford to finish my degree whilst I'm about it too, so that will be a major plus.

Definitely not unreasonable. My dh thought I was mad when I said I WANTED to go back to work (only 1.5 days a week). But I am SO glad I did. My children are fine without me and I enjoy my work (and the pay packet!!).