Working / non working mums

[bigfootfred]

How many of us work & how do you manage to keep a job being flexible with school hours etc?

I don't have school age DC yet but thinking forward to what sort of jobs are manageable around school etc?

If full days do your kids go to after school club/ child minder?

Just wondered how people manage

I’m on mat leave at the moment, but when I wasn’t, we traded off on days. If I had a long day (a couple days a week), my dh would do both school runs and work a shorter day. Other days one of us would do the morning one and the other pick her up in the afternoon. If you’re lucky (no such option at our school),you may also have after school clubs, which lengthen the day a bit too. Other days when he was busy, I’d work shorter days. Neither of us has 9-5 jobs so we work extra hours in the evenings after bedtime which makes that sort of flexibility possible. Not everyone is so lucky though.

I do 3 days in a regional advisory role in retail. It's flexible - I set my own diary, i can squeeze in school events & make up time later, but it involves a LOT of travel.

DC are in breakfast club for those 3 days.
MIL & DM pick up & give them tea on one day each - I do my long days on these days because I know if I get delayed it's not a problem.
They take a packed lunch & stay for after school club on the third day. I try & stay close to home so I can get to them by about 5.30 latest.

I'm extremely lucky to have help, I know.
I'm also lucky that my boys appear to prefer the school clubs to being with me .

I work 3 full days but have a bit of a commute so I do a few hours on a Monday so I can do slightly shorter days when I go in the office.

My mum has DS one day but otherwise they are in nursery. When they get to school i will do a combination school clubs and my mum helping where she can.

Work full time and use an after school club. Same as most of the working mums I know.

I did nights, weekend initially and then moved to week nights once my youngest got his 15 hours play group.

It was really tough but no childcare costs. Plus as a nurse, my job gave flexibility.

I work in a school nursery. When I returned I used a childminder who would drop at the local school/nursery. Used her until my youngest went to high school.

Until then I was always home by 3.30/3.45pm. But when my youngest moved to high school I now have to work until 3.40pm.

I work FT, as does my dh. We use breakfast club and after school club to make the school day longer, with a bit of added flexibility from both our jobs. We don't find it easy to be honest but there are plenty schools without the wrap around option so I think we have it easier than some. Other kids in the school have after school nannies, some have local nursery workers picking them up, and of course, plenty have their parents picking them up. It's a huge mix.

I work 3.5 as a medical Secretary in a local hospital. I use breakfast and after school clubs

I do two 8 hour days and my lovely mum does school pick up, and two school hours days. One day off. I’ve managed to negotiate hours to suit in a public sector finance role by staying in work since having the kids. I’m a bit stuck where I am for now though.