Anyone want to let off steam about what a long fecking slog it is WFH with no school or childcare?

[heidipi]

Just that really, our DC go back 4th Sept so it's the final stretch now but OMG I am so done with starting work at 5.30am to get undisturbed time, then working in bursts of 30 mins to 3hrs (on a good day) during the day and struggling to concentrate, I have more and differnent work to do due to Covid and it's stressful, I'm worried about messing up and I'm worried about the kids having a shit time. All the disclaimers, and I fully appreciate that we are very lucky in many ways, but it's still shit and it's doing my head in. I'm taking a week off at the end of Aug, apart from this I've only been able to use 2 days leave since Xmas. I'm so tired.

Anyone care to join in? no judgement, not a competition for who has it worse. It's just horrible, none of us would ever plan to work like this. Well done for surviving, whatever your circs. (Please don't flame me, I just wanted to rant to people who might understand).

Aarggh just me than. Everyone else is busy helping in the community or doing craft with their DC while simultaneously aceing their job. 😁

agreed. its been so hard and endless...I cannot wait for next month. Kids did see grandparents yesterday and I got so much done when I wasn't having to constantly deal with the requests for icecreams/crisps etc or referee yet another fight over roblox.

Oh loulou yes - I just want to be able to get my head down and work for hours at a time like a normal work day, without it being the middle of the night.

No, it was shit. Luckily my child went back to school in June, and I've been on school holidays since late July. Hats off to people still going with it, you have my sympathy.

Yes I totally get that we are lucky to still have jobs and be able to WFH etc but that's my point, I can be breezy and grateful most of the time but today I mostly just think it's shit and can't wait for it to change a bit.

I'm a single parent who has always worked from home (self employed) and who homeschools anyway. The start of the pandemic prompted my DC to say they would rather be with me 100% of the week where before it was 60% and 40% at their Dad's. I think because their Dad is vulnerable to CV (but also because I think they just didn't want to go anyway, he can be controlling)
Anyway, it's been a fucking shitstorm. I had no idea how much I got done on my child free days. The holidays are bliss as at least I don't have to home ed as well. But i am so tired and rarely get a day off. So I understand the horror.

It is hard, OP! DH both WFH since mid-March and will be for the rest of the year (at least). None of our three children were in priority year groups and so have had no time in school at all, apart from one day each for the younger two on the last day of term.

I'm very, very thankful that ours are at least old enough (12, 10 and 8) to be left to amuse themselves for quite long stretches during the day. I honestly have no idea how we could have juggled this situation with a preschooler, toddler and a baby - I think one of us would have had to have stopped work. But they are on screens more than we would like, and I feel guilty that we have only been able to provide minimal support with their home learning.

I can't even imagine OP - fortunately my ds is 17 but I don't even want to think about how it would have been if he had been 2!

Total hats off to actually homeschooling for real and WFH. Feel quite faint just thinking about it 😬.
And yes one of the main things I'm grateful for is not having pre-schoolers to contend with.

I hear you.

I am self-employed and work from home. Usually I can count on a quiet house between 8.30 and 3.30 on weekdays as DH is at work and the kids are at school. Since March I've been trying to work as usual, with 4 extra people clattering around the house. DH constantly popping in to make tea or have a conversation. Three teenage children clattering around, squabbling with each other, filming tiktoks in the kitchen, demanding food, asking for help with schoolwork I have no clue about.

It's been really hard. I am SO glad that they're all back to school today and DH has gone into the office today, my first day of peace since 13th March!!

sockyarn this is what I'm holding out for! You're giving me hope. (DP will still be here but he can get his own snacks and doesn't leave Lego everywhere).

We have a 4 and a 1 year old. Too young to leave to their own devices so we moved in with my parents. There was no way on Earth it would have worked (particularly as my youngest is a shit sleeper, so couldn’t stay up late without making ourselves physically ill). I feel for people juggling this, it’s bloody awful and the government seem to have forgotten all about it despite those parents carrying on working being the ones paying their taxes!

Mine are finally back (nursery and early primary) and I get to take some of my annual leave now and oh hallelujah. It has been SUCH a hellish slog. Endless conference calls while sprinting round the house after a toddler...

so we moved in with my parents

This was our plan, especially because they have a flat above their garage that wasn't let back in March, where we could have worked during the day. But I had to go to work in school one day a week, and then increasingly often - and they are over 70. Bummer. In the end, partner got up at 5.30 and worked until 12. 30, while I did homeschooling (or not!), then I worked 12.30 - 6.30. We both worked evenings and parts of the weekends. There was no way I could have done live lessons - as it was I was often having to sit up until 1am so I could record videos without my neighbours hollering at each other in the garden.

Half way through, partner got allocated to a key worker team, but school didn't have any space to take our child - whenever I was in school he had to take leave or leave her on a screen all day.

Not just you.

It nearly killed me. I said to my team today if schools closed I will have to hand my resignation in!

It's beyond shite and come September I'll just be relieved to still have a job. Some wfh = good. 100% wfh without any childcare = christ almighty.

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It's beyond shite and come September I'll just be relieved to still have a job. Some wfh = good. 100% wfh without any childcare = christ almighty.

This 100%

It's shit. Absolutely fucking shit. I've had a family bereavement last week and it has been the final straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm counting down the days until the DC go back to school and I'm hoping I can get back to work (hopefully in a different role!) soon after.

Fatted really sorry for your loss. I'm having a massive wobble today and not even because of anything major, it's just building up. DC1 just squirted me with a water a pistol and I nearly started crying. I'm a twat today.