Seriously pi$$ed off!!!!!!

[pucca]

Found the perfect job, went for an interview today and got it but....

I guess i assumed we would get help through tax credits for childcare for my 3.6yo dd and 12mth old ds, but we won't apparently with dh's wage we are only just over the earning amount unable to recieve any help with the childcare.

So in effect, i would be working 16 hrs per week earning £88 to be paying out £71 in nursery fees just no point at all, so angry so much for helping mums back into work.

bump for some sympathy boo hoo

You have my full sympathy pucca

Not good.

QoQ gives sympathy Boo-hoo***

Oh, congratulations on getting the job pucca, but and for you re. the money thing - so frustrating!

I was in a similar position some years ago - dd1 and dd2 were at nursery whilst I worked full time - and in the end I was only about £50 per month better off! Then nursery put their fees up - so I had to resign - that was the last f/t job I had (and am likely to have for the forseeable future!)

What the hell am i going to do though, no point working for £16 a week, really wanted the job too but also need the money, can't believe we won' get any help with the childcare.

Thanks for the sympathy, i am gutted though.

hang on, is it a complete disaster?

is there hope of promotion/ more money in the future?

Will your dd be going to school next year? Nursery fees won't be so much then...

Could you find cheaper childcare that you are happy with? (Childminder?)

Can you/ dh get part of your pay in childcare vouchers?

Tissy...Dd will be going to school next year, she will be going to nursery in Sept 12.30 till 3.15, but my hours would be 12.30 - 5.30, so will have to think that one through.

Childcare vouchers...not sure on that one will check it out.

Yeah there is scope to get more hours and more money in future.

I need to think it all through, thanks for the help

It's generally reckoned that it is easier to get a job when you are in one already, so it might be worth starting and seeing what else is available?

What tissy and beansprout said.
It's frustrating now, and may not be financially worth it.
But there may be childcare vouchers available, there is scope for improving your hours and pay, and future career prospects, none of which you can do (as easily) by staying at home.
And hopefully you will get more out of it in a non financial sense as well?
Have a think about it, it seems a shame to turn it down when you have done so well to be offered the job. You may need to just think about it as a more long-term decision.
Good luck whatever you do.

When I first started work we were financially worse off but over time as wages increase etc it does work out just often hard in teh beginning.

It's hard and I am sorry

But the longer you stay out of the workplace, the harder it is to get in with any degree of seniority.

I have a friend who resigned to look after her two children. She spent three years at home and went back to work on precisely half her original salary. She reckons another couple of years and she would have been totally unemployable. This was two years ago. Now she earns a fortune.

So there are lots of (not immediately visible) benefits to getting back onto the treadmill

Take it anyway Pucca.

So annoying about the money as we are in the exact same position.

I had to pull mine out of the childminders as during school hols I was paying £7 per hour and ended up losing £10.50 per day.

I do casual hours during the hols and have found a place at preschool for ds2 for £3.40 per hour and DH can collect earlier than I could.

It is a bummer but as everyone said it is easier to get better jobs when you are employed and the money could get better and you could get more hours.

It ia a bummer though.

Thanks everyone for all your help and advice.

I am taking it, my mum has offered to have to kids one afternoon in the week, and i am going to work a full day Saturday too, it is less hours but really want this job, the employer have been totally fab about my problem with the childcare and has re-arranged the hours to suit me

The job is working for a estate agents as a viewing person, so literally just showing people around houses, no time stuck in the office - fab! and once i am settled etc i can be trained to do inventories and rent appraisals so really chuffed as there is scope to learn more and do more hours if i wish to...a foot in the door and all that

Would echo the advice about taking the job and sod the fact that for the first year you will be only earning a tiny margin of extra income.

your dd starts school in a year so it gives you a limited time to suffer the financial madness of the situation and just over a year after that you'll get the governement funding towards your's nursery place as he'll be 3.

The benefits of getting a foot in the door back into the workplace are there for the future as you've said.

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