🤷🏻♀️career.. a lot of people question your choice to be at home mum. They say “don’t you have a career ambition or something?”. Of course I do. I have lots of ambition. However, I simply haven’t found what’s my career is. I had a career and for some time i really enjoyed it. But even before maternity leave I started to have second thought. So that is why I decided not to go back to my job after maternity. And now I’m in search for new adventure 👻. If it ends up being a mum at home, then it’s also not bad.. better than sitting in the office just to fit into what other people think you should do.
Being at home mom...Why it immediately makes me a person without ambition?
What are your plans after maternity? Did you go back to work or decided to stay home? Share your thought, ladies! 💁🏻♀️
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I have worked since I was 16. I have done work as an animal keeper, worked in a kennel & a shop before getting a job as a cleaner on a palliative care unit. I worked there for 11 years, through 4 pregnancies. When it came to thinking about mat leave I decided to leave my job & focus on my kids. Not because I'm "lazy" or have "no ambition" but simply because I want to. I'm also using this time to do an open uni course so when I want to go back to work, which I will as I love working (just not as much as I love my kids) I will have more qualifications & more of an idea (I hope) of the career I want to do x
@amybentley, that’s what I was thinking about: to study something new and refresh.. but not 100% sure yet. Good luck 🍀 to you with application and hope you will like it!
@mummy2two, I had same thoughts literally. An idea of missing out on some of my daughter’s firsts was unbearable 🙈
@missmysleep, yeah you’re right about it depending where you are career wise. Giving up my job wouldn’t even cross my mind as it wouldn’t be financially beneficial and I’d go stir crazy.😂
@healthymama92 yes it definatley makes a difference, otherwise I'd be working to pay someone else to look after my baby and not actually earning anything 😂.
@missmysleep, you are lucky to have grandparents nearby.. probably if we lived closer to grandparents I would have made different decision.. so yeah ;) and nursery fees are nuts!
It also really annoys me that people feel they have the right to give you their opinion on YOUR life choices.
I'll be going back 3 days a week. I think it depends where you are career wise. I've been there for 12 years so need to go back to keep my job as it's good benefits and pay. If you're not sure on career though then I don't blame you. Nursery fees are crazy!!! I'm also lucky to have family support so only have to pay for this baby 1 day a week and then my 2 boys for after school club. Unfortunately we don't get any financial help so just need to budget tightly for the first few years. I also don't think I could stay at home full time, I like going to work. Like I said though my kids spend a lot of time with grandparents and family so that makes the decision much easier x
I stay at home with my boys while partner works, but I've applied for uni for September, as much as I love my kids it's just not for me anymore and want to do something for myself 🙈x
I’m going back after a few months, the £47 a day nursery fees are a killer though! 😬
@nataliielouiseexo, cool you can work part time..) and that your employer is quite flexible
@chelseaalford, sounds good! Great it worked out for you well 😀👍🏻
I went on maternity leave at 34 weeks and had my son at 37 weeks (induced) I went back to work after 11 months but only 3 days a week 17 hours which works for me. It's abit of sanity time and don't have to rely on my partner for money and I'm better off now than when I worked 30 hours! Luckily I still live with my parents so they have my son for a couple of hours in 2 evenings a week and a Saturday/Sunday x
I wasn't planning on returning to work but I've changed my mind I'll only be working 2 or 3 days though x
I resigned at 20 weeks pregnant. I’m not going back until baby is 3 and even then I’m only going part time for 2 years. Not bothered what anyone thinks, I did the same with my other 2 children I like to be at home with them xx
My plan is to stay at home for at Least a year. Then if I feel like working might help us then I'm going to go for a job in a school. It'll only be for around 3 hours a day 5 days a week. My mum in law will look after the little one. I'll still get help with everything as it's less than 16 hours a week and classed as a council job. It's not bad pay either. But my fiance said I don't need to go back to work if I don't want to as he's training to be a manager at work. So it will all depend on how I feel xx
@jamie123, same here. Nursery prices are crazy indeed 🙈
@carlybeanw, good luck with your studies! Hope it will become clear what you want to do.. I’m also in the process of trying to figure out.. 😀