What will you do when the kids are at school?

[poshBecks]

I am beginning to think about life after SAHM.... when the kiddlets are at school.
Will you return to your pervious career part-time/full time? Will you try something new?

I am a bit lost. I am a hairdresser. I havn't worked in a salon for nearlly 4 years now. I do a bit at home, but its not much. I feel out of touch from the industry.

I dont know what I am going to do with myself :confused:

Maybe I should just keep popping out babies :laughing:

[forbetoel]

I will only ever work part time, as I feel that school aged kids need their mums just as much as the little ones. I personally feel it is important to be there at the end of the school day if possible, because if they are happy or sad, it is then that they wll be open to talk to you about it. My two eldest are at school, and I do like to help in the classromm and go to assembly, and being home allows them to have friends over for a play too. I have lovely memories of coming home from school as a kid to big cuddles from mum and a treat waiting on the table, I really want the same for my kids. So yeah something part time, in school hours, even at a shop or supermarket, somewhere where I won't bring home any stress, it will only be for extra money as being there for my kids is my number one priority.




Maybe I should just keep popping out babies :laughing:

Yes have more babies, you will never regret that, and you make such cute ones too!!!!
Hairdressing is a great career for when you have older kids, one of my friends has school aged kids, and she works Sat mornings and two other mornings a week at a salon. She goes to work, comes home, and is really stress free, she loves having a chat and catching up with the salon (and town) gossip, and then comes home to the kids, she has a great balance.

[poshBecks]

Yeah I would like to be home for my kids aswell.... which is another reason why hairdressing is just a turn off for me now... the hours stink!!

Maybe I'll be a check out chick ;) Or I could just be a stay at home wife for the rest of my life :p I like that idea!! hehe

[mumx3littlies]

RELAAAAAAAAAAX:laughing: :D

[kymmy]

Probably go to school myself. Just something I would enjoy like photography. I would like to do some freelance. I don't want to do full time work until my kids finsih high school. I plan to have 2 more kids but that may be some time away. I will be old by then!

[SassyMummy]

I don't know... work though. I don't want to be a housewife forever... I think I would just end up killing someone if I had to do that.

[Samaras Mummy]

Ill be going back to work part time. Allthough dont know what doing.

[Jeclipse]

I want to study to become a primary school teacher when Heaths in primary school:)

[forbetoel]

I want to study to become a primary school teacher when Heaths in primary school:)

Great idea :thumbsup:

[Nickster]

I am going to:

1. Work extremely hard at the gym and try to regain some semblance of a figure.

2. Perhaps pick up a few more hours at work, or study some more.

3. Join an amateur theatre group again, and get involved in some productions.

4. Swan about with my other friends who have school-aged children and do High Tea.:p

I like the idea of starting something new, but I am also excited about being able to have more time to do the things I used to do before DD.

[poshBecks]

I am going to:


4. Swan about with my other friends who have school-aged children and do High Tea.:p


I might just have to swan about with you :D

[subaruforestermum]

We plan to have our own business or be in partnership! I will work from home and do the books, or even get some knowledge and go out and do quotes.

I have always wanted to do a mechanic course or apprenticeship, but doubt I would be able to do that with my carpal tunnel...

Or I have always dreamt of opening a family orientated restaurant! Which will probably never happen either!

Might get my CAMs licence and go around working at all the V8 events etc...now that would be fun...:D

[EmsMum72]

Cry for about 2 weeks ...................




and then ...............




go back to work, hopefully I'll find a secretarial position that is school hours. I might even work part-time, 3 days a week, play mid week ladies tennis once a week, and go grocery shopping on the other remaining school day. Sounds great doesn't it? Don't know if hubby will agree to that :laughing: he'll probably want me to go back full-time (but with school hours), the hardest part will be finding a 'school hours' job. Mind you, hopefully hubby's built our business up by then and I can just work at home in our business.

[JnA]

I'm going to do the whole PTA thing, get involved in the school and canteen duty and stuff like that. Be home when my kids get home, go to sports days and assemblies and that sort of thing.

Both my parents worked full time when I was growing up, I never had them come to special days and went home to an empty house each afternoon. I don't want that for my kids.

[drewid]

If finances allowed, I'd be a SAHM forever! If I went back to work, I'd want to do something I loved, otherwise it just wouldn't be worth what I'd lose.

I definitely want more kids...now thank you (!)...so hopefully this question won't be an issue for quite a few more years yet!

I just want to be at home before and after school...what happens between 9 and 3 is negotiable depending on our circumstances then.

[poshBecks]

How wonderful would it be to get a job that was only in school hours!!!! *sigh* here's hoping!!

Hopefully we will be able afford for me to be a SAHM & I could just do volunteer work somewhere......

[nugglyboysmum]

I am planning on finding a part-time job when Archie starts school, anything will do, i want to be able to be there for him before and after school as much as possible but i also want to work and earn some money and meet new people and learn new things.

[reAllytee]

Well at this point we will have our next 2 kidlets when these 2 are at school or so we are hoping !

So when all my kids are off at school im not too sure as to what i will do as such but im going to be very active in their schools thats for sure ! Most need lots of help from volunteering parents so i figure its the least i can do !

Otherwise i may look at studying myself.

[consy]

I plan to keep popping them out!! Not sure if dh is on the same page though... :laughing:

I would also like to get involved in PTA's and that kind of thing... my parents were in their early 40's when they had me and so by the time I was in primary school they were in their mid 50's and both working. It was fine, as my dad virtually worked from home, but i would like to be the mum who makes trays of cordial and sandwiches for my childrens friends when they come over after school. :chef:

You know what though, i think hairdressing is a very very conventient position to be in. When i was in primary school one of my friends mum was a hairdresser and all us friends went to her house for haircuts, and maybe our parents went too, and so she made that money on the side. We loved it, as she wold cut our hair and then we could play! So you could do that.

Before having bubs i was a pallative care carer so i don't miss it much... :no:

[IAdoreYou]

Maybe I should just keep popping out babies :laughing: Why not? :D

I plan to be definately working in Office Admin again when Brooke is in Kindy at least 3 days a week, definately when she is Prep.
It really just depends on # 2, we are still in the process of making # 2. So once # 2 decides to come down from the beautiful gods and join us, I will know for sure on our future plans which include some fun stuff :)

that's mwa!

[erinjacob]

i dont no ill be so lost maybe ill just keep having kids then i wont have that problem haha. i could do house work haha whats that.

[our little treasures]

I will only ever work part time, as I feel that school aged kids need their mums just as much as the little ones. I personally feel it is important to be there at the end of the school day if possible, because if they are happy or sad, it is then that they wll be open to talk to you about it. My two eldest are at school, and I do like to help in the classromm and go to assembly, and being home allows them to have friends over for a play too. I have lovely memories of coming home from school as a kid to big cuddles from mum and a treat waiting on the table, I really want the same for my kids. So yeah something part time, in school hours, even at a shop or supermarket, somewhere where I won't bring home any stress, it will only be for extra money as being there for my kids is my number one priority.

You and I are so much alike it's not funny!! I am the same... I will go to a supermarket etc so I can work without the added stress and money to me is not worth it.

[shed]

I have a small business idea. I need to be flexible so I can go to school things, so that basically means being the boss.

I have one more baby to come yet though, so we are looking at least five years down the track anyway.

So I don't care at the moment, really. I worked for so long before having babies that I am in no hurry to go back.

[~Emmylou~]

I'll be working as a doula, and hopefully by the time my eldest is at school I'll be a breastfeeding counsellor as well. I love with this work there is so much flexibility to work around my kids needs.

I've had to go back to work for a year part time (as part of the agreement for the year of paid maternity leave I took with DS) and it's been really, really frustrating to have to turn away clients because I can only commit to one a month with my job and the kids.

But once that year is done I'm out of there so fast they won't see me for dust. Birth work is my passion, that's just a job :thumbsup:

[mum2bubba]

I will probably work.

[kyannas*mum*]

once my 2nd bubba is born i am doing a personal training course as this is the area i love to work in and enloy helping people then once kiddies off to school i will be more active in that field untill then we have a business so i just do the books and finaces for that which keeps me happy

[Simona121]

Maybe you should consider getting into another career. While you are still with the kids, you could start doing an online course such as those provided by Thomson Direct http://www.thomson.edu.au . You can study part time and you will have the time to take care of your children, and when they start going back to school, you will have the skills to get back in the workforce!:smiliedance:

[Noah_and_Elijah]

Hopefully I will never have to work again. :D

I don't plan on working when my children are in primary school because I want to help out at the school (i.e tuckshop, P&C meetings etc) and providing DF continues in the same line of work then I can afford to never work again (unfortunately, not a luxury that everyone has I know)

Once they get to high school though that's a different ball game. I will do whatever they want me to do. If they want me around when they are home from school then I'll do that. They come first.

* regardless of how out of touch you think you are i think you would made a great hairdresser *

[0BleSseD0]

Aha! This is a question I can answer SOO easily!

:babydust2: I'll be homeschooling!! :babydust2:


Hurrah! :)

[Refresh]

OMGosh Blessed, I forgot your PM!!:o Sooooo sorry! We have just moved house which is my excuse....I shall get back to you tonight!!!

As for the OP, I will be/am homeschooling too!:smiliedance:

[luckymama]

i really don't have any idea. I haven't worked for a few years already, so by the time i go back to work, i would have had about 7 years off :eek: I did always want to be a vet nurse, so maybe ill do a course, not sure really.

[Bree3]

I guess i will be doing what i am doing now which is Admin. I run the office in my step dad's business which at the moment i do every Thursday and Saturday. When the kids go to school i will work from Monday to Friday 9am till 3pm. I'm also studing to become a bookkeeper so hopefully be able to find some extra work doing that as well.

My mum was a single mum who had to work two jobs to support me. So i would have to always catch the bus home after school and wait at home on my own for a few hours before she finished work. I so wanted to be one of those kids who's mum's would be there after school waiting to pick them up. So it's important to me to be able to do that for my kids. My mum however is an amazing woman who has achieved more then anyone could ever think possible. She now owns her own business and has all the time in the world for me and her granddaughters.

Sorry going off topic i just love my mum so much and i know if she could she would have been there every day after school. Ok now i'm getting abit :crying:

[Noah_and_Elijah]

Sorry going off topic i just love my mum so much and i know if she could she would have been there every day after school.

She did what was best for her children and no one can accuse her of any different. Just because she wasn't there to pick you up after school doesn't mean that she wasn't a fantastic Mum! :hugs:

[mumwiththree]

Well, I didn't really work when I had my DS, it was hard to find something that would fit in around school times and as I was a single mother from the time my DS was 6 months old, and couldn't really afford full-time daycare, I stayed at home basically until he was about 8 years old.
By then I'd had my DD. I would have loved to have sah with her, but finances wouldn't allow it. So when she was 13 months old, I went out a got a job. The work was supposed to be only casual, but ended up working 5-7 days a week. I would start at about 2:30pm and finish at 9:30pm. Also working Sundays, Public Hols, Christmas, Easter etc as I worked in a hospital. It was hard, but we needed the money.
I have changed jobs in the last year, but still working in a hospital, but this time, the hours weren't so bad. Most of the time I worked from 7am til 11am. But because I never had the same days off, my DD had to be in daycare full-time. She loved it but I wished I could be there more for her.
And my DS has been going through stuff at school, he is now 11. So when I found out I was expecting baby #3, I told my DH that when I leave work, I wasn't planning on going back for at least 5 years. He was quite shocked, but I said that our son needs me to be there for him at the moment, and I miss being at home with our DD.
Baby #3 is due in Feb 08. I plan to start studying from home mid way through next year, and continue until I finish my 4 year degree. I left work 8 weeks ago.
I loved the work I was doing, but shift work and kids don't really gell. I wish to have a career in something where I don't have to work weekends, public hols, christmas, easter, etc. I want to spend those times with my kids.
So hopefully, finances allows me to do this.