Bit of a WWYD for you ladies. I'm a bit stuck on what to do about work. I started working 3 nights a week in a pub back in May. Money was getting tight, I'd not been earning since finishing my maternity leave last time and DD was coming up to 2.
It's been fine. I've enjoyed it. Although it's a blind leading the blind kinda place, and the manager is a bit of a plank.
Skip forward to now, I'm coming up to 5 weeks pregnant and feeling exhausted. Last time around I was just as tired, albeit a bit later on in the pregnancy. But I was working full-time. I would literally crawl up the stairs at 6pm, have dinner in bed and go to sleep! For a good 8 weeks or so!
Obviously now I have DD things are different. But DH is lovely and is trying to help as much as possible in the evenings as before. But 3 nights a week I'm leaving the house just as he arrives and am off to work.
I woke up this morning with a sinking feeling because I thought it was friday and therefore a work night :(
But I'm worried about giving up the extra income too soon. I could (theoretically) feel fine in a couple of weeks. DH has got a promotion recently and this month is the first with his increased salary. Me earning means we'll be even better off, and it seems a shame to lose that so soon. I've enjoyed bringing some money in again, and feel guilty for thinking of jacking it in so early in the pregnancy.
It's a cash in hand type place, and the boss made it clear he was sick of people having babies when I was interviewed! 2 ladies in his day job were about to leave for maternity, and the lady I replaced at the pub was about to drop too. Therefore the option of time off/sick leave just isn't there - its a case of stay or go. Which is fair enough.
But I'm stuck as to what to. Stick it out for a bit longer but risk running myself into the ground. Or cut my losses and quit while I'm ahead?