I must be mad

[hanbee]

have a place at Drama school. 35 hours a week, 1.5 hpurs travel time from home, two primary aged children one with special needs.

It's a life long dream so hoping it doesn't turn into a nightmare. Has anyone else made this sort of commitment work?

DH is very skeptical, mostly (I feel) because more responsibility will fall on him tbh.

You're not mad. In fact you'll be more disiciplined about the training that most, partly because you've had to organise yourself

It's a cliche and everyone ignores it (won't happen to them!)but the likelihood of making a career afterwards is low - particularly for a woman. 10 years on -1 person from my year still acts as their full time career- a few others manage to combine acting with other careers in the arts, like music. 70% of my year does something else (retraining in business, law amongst other things). Nothing to do with talent or looks - all quite arbitrary (though there was someone in the year below who was honestly one of the best actors in the school and is now in Hollywood - so that's very heartening)

Maybe your dh is worried about this and is just looking our for you? Any other reason - has he said anything? Drama school is after all the same hours as a 9-5 job, adding a commute on top is going to be hard but thousands of parents of two children do that kind of thing.

Thanks so much for replying. I really feel this is something I MUST do. Its a feeling that hasn't gone away since I was a child. Couldn't go as a youngster as it was back in the days that there was a DaDa or nothing and my parents couldn't afford it. Got a place again in my twenties but again couldn't raise the fees so this third time lucky for me really.

I'm aware of the probability of not working and almost feel like I'd so value training for 3 years that any work after is a bonus!

DH thinks that it's not in the children's best interests and that someone needs to be around before and after school but as you say, plenty of parents both work ft so I think it's no different.