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Thinking of giving up work already

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reastie · 20/01/2012 07:19

I returned from mat leave 2 weeks ago Blush . I'm a teacher and now do 2 days spread over 3 days. I love teaching but for many issues I can't see that I will be happy keeping on as I am. I'm one of those people who needs things prepped and organised, and even though I am greatly dropping my standards I'm still finding I'm at school longer than my hours and taking work home - it's just the norm of teaching. If I just did my hours it would be an OK work/life balance but it's the dashing to get ready in the morning, dashing to work, dashing home from work (childcare is by family who need to me rush home to collect dd when I finish teaching) and trying to get work done while looking after dd and stressing about it. Plus the saturday mornings in work for open morning and the parents evenings etc etc I feel like even if I'm strict about being part time there's still so much more to do than my actual in school hours.

I've spoken to a different dept at school who hope to have some work for me in september doing induvidual time with students who need help for whatever reason. The hours are less and there is minimal work needed outside of when I'm actually paid IYKWIM. The only drawbacks are I won't definitely know if and how much of this work I will have until september so would ahve to hand my notice in not knowing if I'd be certain to be working and is it a good move for my career to stop teaching (although tbh dd comes above any career anyway).

I would need to hand my notice in at easter if I want to do this but for some reason dh is against it and says that isn't long enough to see if I'll settle back into teaching - so now I'm not sure if it's long enough either. He thinks the extra work etc I'm doign now will improve but tbh he has no idea - it only builds up and gets worse as more admin type tasks get assigned.

So I have no idea what to think or what to do or what to plan for. Does anyone have any perspective on this which would help me see the wood for the trees?

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 20/01/2012 07:23

I understand your workload completely. My DH is a teacher.
How old is your DD? sorry, but I don't know how long mat leave is for.
Would you be able to get back into 'regular' teaching a couple of years down the line if you take on this new position?
FWIW, I would give serious thought to doing it. You don't want to get a couple of months down the line and regret your decision.

reastie · 20/01/2012 08:10

DD is 10 mo. I coudl get back into regular teaching either at a new post at another school or if my replacement were to leave I could apply for the job, but I'm the only one in the school with my subject specialism and jobs in this area are quite rare (which makes it all the harder choice)

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