I haven't been on here for ages but hope my story will be helpful to some of you. After 4 years at home with the DCs I was suddenly desperate to get back to work,just sick of the domestic drudgery and so on.Well,it's early days but I am in the third month of my new job and it's going well. It's local,well paid, part time and in a completely different area to what I used to do.I just thought I would post as I remember when I was job searching I would scour here for anyone who had managed to changed careers without doing lots of extra training and with decent pay after such a long break and often struggled to find anyone or many people seemed to have the attitude that a break would equal a poorly paid job with no prospects.I am not going to say what I do as its not relevant and I don't want to out myself but its not much more than administration and organising.Admittedly it helps that I live in London so the salary is alot more than I could expect else where but even so I am really pleased with myself.Best of luck to any of you who are job searching after a long break.