Been out of a job for a while and I haven't been getting any offers. Unable to work weekends due to having a son and Mon-Fri jobs are being taken by more experienced candidates and despite paying for a professional to update my CV to be more geared towards admin/office roles and not my usual hospitality and retail background, I'm still nowhere near being successful. Every single interviewer keeps telling me that they need people who can work weekends. From admin/office roles, FOH, HK, Kitchen, etc. it all comes down to 'No weekend, no offers.'
I've asked my husband to help me with childcare over the weekends just so that I can improve my chances of getting a job. He has already been given a fixed day off (Tuesday) two years ago to help cut cost of childcare but his boss refuses to give him a fixed weekend (he is a chef). He is the only one in the kitchen that has a kid and Im so angry at him and his boss for not trying to be flexible. From the moment our son was born, I had to give up full-time work and all the other usual things that every mother/single parent has to give up for their child. Finding work after maternity leave was difficult, every job I had was seasonal...I even did night shifts and that was horrible because I also had to look after my son during the day time. Whenever I was working, when we get a call from nursery saying that our son needed to be picked up, I'm ALWAYS the one who had to give up work. It's always just me, me , and me. I'm super stressed, anxious, and depressed that out of the two us, I feel like Im the one who is giving up everything to make things work. I would have thought when we decided to start a family, we would both have an input so that things like this can be avoided but I feel like Im the only one making the effort and I just want to give it all up and walk out. Im so drained.
I have now applied for night shift roles and it's going to be so difficult to manage but it's the only type of job that will fit around my commitments. I've also applied for a warehouse operative role (7am-3pm) and I have yet to hear back.