Is it me or does it seem like things you have been looking/hoping for always appear in twos?
Allow me to elaborate...
In the past 2 days, the following options have presented themselves:
A woman I work with and know at an acquaintance level who is just about to return to part-time work after maternity leave called me to ask if I might be interested in setting up an arrangement where we help each other out with child care. She also has 2 kids (ages 2.5 and 6 months), also works part-time and her prior arrangement is no longer working. THIS is something I have been praying for! She lives close, I know her to be a good person and I am sure we could work out our schedules in a way that would be helpful to both of us. Sounds great, right? So we are going to get together Monday with the kids to let them get to know each other and to discuss the details and see if it's something we want to pursue.
ALSO,
I sit in on an autism screening team at our county's intermediate unit (part of early intervention if that helps) and the coordinator of this team just gave her notice. She sort of gave me a "heads up" about this because she wondered if I might be interested. We often talk about work, kids etc. so she knows me well enough to know that I work part-time and that money is a stressor for us. I have a pretty good understanding of the job responsibilities, the schedule is manageable with really no evening work (unlike my current part-time gig) and the salary is far more than I have ever been paid! Good benefits, good boss, nice facility...lots of pluses.
Mind you, this job isn't even officially "posted" yet, I haven't interviewed, don't even know if the position would be offered to me and I am already sweating the idea of putting the boys in full time daycare, being away from them so much, etc. It's ridiculous. If the salary wasn't so good (VERY good for my field), I wouldn't even consider it. But it is good enough that we could pay for full time daycare for both boys and still be bringing in more money. A couple of other jobs have come up but the salary was not enough.
Why is this so hard to consider? I know that the income would help us on so many levels and yet the idea of leaving Michael and Liam is heartbreaking to me.
At this point, there is no decision to make...and already I am stressed!
PS- Just so I don't seem like a jerk, I did let the work friend know that I am applying for a full time opportunity--so I am not setting something up with her that I am then going to pull out of IF I even get an offer.
1 comment:
Yikes! 2 perfectly good options opposite each other... not sure what to chime in, cuz my leave ends in 2 wks and i'm already sad. but this is about you, right? I say don't stress until you have the offer in front of you. Hmph. Yeah. I know, I know. After all, you wanna be prepared, right? OK, how about this: TRY not to stress while praying, and talking with dh, and donig one of those pro/con lists.
If you do go back full time, would it help to have a goal and time period??? I.e. I'm going to work for ONE year so we can do X with the $, and then we'll re-evaluate. Not that you say any of that in the interview- ha! Good luck- I'll keep you in my prayers too ;)
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