mad to think I can go back to work full time?

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my mum keeps feeling the need to tell me she thinks I am. I have an interview for a health care assistant role in a few weeks and I am really excited, been appying for jobs for the last 6 months and getting nowhere. Everytime I try to speak to my mum about it, becasue I am a little bit nervous and excited etc she just keep telling me what a bad idea it is to work full time and how I wont cope. I dont know the hours of the job or the options yet but I believe it is nursing shifts so 12.5 hours days or nights and you work 3 a week.

Am I mad to think I can go from being SAHM to doing this? I need to look at tax credits and childcare etc. Essentially I need to find a childminder, other people manage this why shouldnt I be able, both dc are at school, they are 6 and 8. Also I have 2 dogs, would get a dog walker in for days I am working.

Hi there
I don't think it sounds mad if its what you want to do. I have two dc at primary and am about to go back full time. I can't wait but some friends think I'm crazy. I think what people mean is that they would not want to do it themselves which is fine by me, I'm not asking them to!

You'll be fine and,so will your kids, ignore your mum its,a generation thing. It sounds,exciting

Of course you can do it. I'm about to return full time with three dcs and 2 dogs - it will be tiring but worth it.

Enjoy your new job :)

Thanks, it is a bit scary and I would like to talk it over with my mum but she worries and makes me doubt that I can do things. I need to go back to work, both financially and emotionally being a sahm for 9 years I need to get my own life back a bit. I am working towards going back to uni to train to be a midwife but if I got this job then I would probably put that off for a few years and enjoy working in the hospital environment that I have been so desperate to get into to.

Beacasue it will be shift work I think the impact it will have on family life will be different to working full time 9-5 as at different times different family members will be around. dh has a stable 9-5 job round the corner so is home for 5.20 every night, the kids have plenty of stability and other people are capable of doing a lot of what i do in the home.

I suggest you find someone a bit more supportive to dicuss it with - mothers tend to worry - and she may be worried she would be asked to do more or that you won't be able to support her maybe - or that just that you will get stressed - or she doesn't get that your carreer and work is important to you - maybe it wasn't to her?
so long as your DH is supportive that which I assume he is - sure you will be find