How to deal with my current job?

martina99
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:01:46 +0000

When my kids were young, I cut my hours to part time so that I could deal with appointments and frequent childhood illnesses. Now I’m back full time, and H and I switch off when the kids are sick. I actually take more of the stay home times, since my current position allows me to work from home if I need to.

It’s tough. When my kids were little, I was on thin ice at times with my employer because of absences. We had no family in the area.

I am not involved with my children’s school, I just don’t have the time. As it is, in order to get my older kids to their after school activities, I need to leave early some days and make up the time in the evenings or over the weekend.

And now I have an elderly mother that is seriously ill; I am taking off time for her too between visits to the rehab and doctors.