I have been working in my new job now for a month. I have yet to see any pay (tomorrow is pay day!) and I have already dropped a night so only do two nights a week. This sounds pretty bad I would have thought, but I knew it was too much and I wasn't getting quite what I wanted out of it, and lucky the home is pretty flexible and have accommodated my request to drop one night a week.
I do get quite tired after my night on, although I usually manage to get a nap the day before, and then I usually get a three hour sleep in after my night, which is enough to see me through till bedtime. So its working out pretty well. I am getting to do what I wanted with the children, the teachers all know who I am at school, I went to a 'thing' at the school last week, so am not feeling I am missing out. Today my daughter is off school with a tummy bug, and because of the vulnerable adults I work with, I am not allowed to go to work tonight - which feels really weird. I have to, by law, let the home know that we have a tummy bug at home, and they have to, by law, stop me coming in and spreading it about. I feel just terrible, but think I would feel worse if I went in and they all came down with the bug!
I am now looking for something to bring in a few extra pennies, that I can work around the kids and work etc etc etc - almost everyone I know makes jewelry or greeting cards, are a rep of some description in the pyramid schemes that are Avon and Body Shop. To try and think of something, new, unique and that would actually be worth doing is quite a task!!!
I dare say I will think of something eventually!
When I first started my new job I had a very bad time of it for a couple of weeks, I was dealing with a new situation, learning lots of new things, my son going back to school after the school holidays and my daughter starting school for the first time! I was also dealing with leaving the baby - I was very down for a couple of weeks, smiles were no where to be seen and tears flowed like a waterfall. My lovely hubby told me to jack in the job - but as tempting as that idea was deep down I knew that it was not the job, it was just the amount of change I was dealing with in a very short period of time.
I am getting into a routine now, getting used to what I have to do and even getting used to working right through the night!
