Working Mummies Support Group #3

[wysiwyg]

Well my subversive methods have got me somewhere, interview friday. Better pull this one off now or I will have burned a few agency bridges for nothing. Happy happy happy now.

[peanutter]

Well my subversive methods have got me somewhere, interview friday. Better pull this one off now or I will have burned a few agency bridges for nothing. Happy happy happy now.

Awesomely good luck !!

[~TT40~]

What industy are you in wysiwyg?

[wysiwyg]

What industy are you in wysiwyg?

IT - SAP specifically.

[Mumma T]

IT - SAP specifically.

I wish you had been at our work doing our SAP data migration last week - what a disaster its been

[trishalishous]

wysiwyg, good luck tomorrow!

[wysiwyg]

Thanks - Interview went well we talked money and have already asked for references so sounds promising.

Data migration I think is one of the most problematic parts - not strictly my arena but have been through a few times, I sympathize.

[OceanPrincess]

Yay wysiwyg!! Sounds promising.

Teeki it's so good to read about you enjoying your new job. Nice!

I'm struggling, to be honest. I just can't seem to balance it all. Not helped by DD and DS2 both expressing their extreme displeasure at my working over the school hols. DS2 is just cranky at life at this stage, he's 2.5, drama central... But DD telling me she hates me working is difficult to hear

[peanutter]

It's so hard when the kids don't want you to go to work ...

[~TT40~]

Does make it hard, Spock has always known and understood why we need to work. (To get money to buy her strawberries) she even gets excited when i say im going to work and is keen to see me leave =( she is really mature like that though, i think it's because we always explained to her from day one exactly what was going on, its really great now cause when i go to work im away for a night atleast. She does miss me and i can't shake her off me when i get home....this all doesnt help you though..... sorry

On my end they finally seemed to have sorted their **** out... been back 4 weeks, didnt get paid, had to wait an extra week of "we are working on it " and my having to fill.out a leave form to say i wasn't on leave... my email was suspended, they re opened it hut something glitched and my mailbox was corrupt and after 3 IT dudes trying to fix it the only way to was to delete it and give me a new one...so yes i have a working email but have lost everything.... and slowly machines are recognising my id number again....basically when i was on leave they deleted me from the system, but not completely, so while nothing worked they couldnt set me up cause i was already registered and no one could work out why nothing worked..
But the working is good =) im only doing 3 a fortnight atm (i did 4 last fortnight cause i did an extra to cover sickleave) and work house balance is perfect with 3.
Quark is getting better with my folks. Except she doesnt drink anything for them....so is not constipated =( any tips?

[Foss]

I just wanted to share...

I have 2 little ones, DD is 16 months and DS is 11 weeks. I am on maternity leave from my company but I have always done a bit of personal conaulting, which is allowed under my contract. The week before last, I went for an interview with a lovely company to sub-contract for them ad hoc when they need writers and desktop publishers. I thought it went well and, as they work quite flexibly, I was really hoping that I could get some work out of it because it suits me great to do a few hours at home each night.

Well, Thursday I got a call with my first lot of subcontracting. I have about 14 hours work with everything due close of business Monday. So far I am three quarters of the way through and I'm pinching myself because I feel so lucky. I am home with the kids during the day, can work while they are sleeping and feel like I'm contributing to the household finances again. Not to mention that I'm using my brain again and don't feel guilty buying little bits and pieces.

I really hope this works out because I feel like I've hit the jackpot!

[~TT40~]

That sounds fantastic Foss! Yay you got something that fits so perfectly with your family =)

[Beautiful Disaster]

I'm still plodding along too lots going on in our office with a possible merge so we have worked today to do a new missin statement and values with the other people. Seems so pointless when they keep saying IF the merge happens. Why get us all in and do extensions to the other office if it's NOT happening. So confused

[wysiwyg]

Yay wysiwyg!! Sounds promising.

Teeki it's so good to read about you enjoying your new job. Nice!

I'm struggling, to be honest. I just can't seem to balance it all. Not helped by DD and DS2 both expressing their extreme displeasure at my working over the school hols. DS2 is just cranky at life at this stage, he's 2.5, drama central... But DD telling me she hates me working is difficult to hear

I think is an age thing with your DD and a school thing. As I said before DD had never ever had an issue with me working before starting school - but as they get older they start comparing "why can so and so's mum pick up every day, get time off in school holidays, get to every school event and you can't" and I think at the 6-7 age they just don't really get enough about the way finances employment work to get it. Even if you tie it to having to work for a particular reason, e.g mortgage, food whatever - they can't get why other people can have these things and their mum can still pick up, stay home school holidays etc. I think that realization that not everyone can have the same things comes later.

Must be extra hard for your DD OP as she will remember when you didn't work I assume.

I don't think schools and people in general help though, the number of times get asked "are you going anywhere?" - or said to DD "will be nice to be home with mum" . I think teachers forget because they are off for two weeks, that a lot of peoples lives are just the same but there is no school (I don't begrudge teachers their holidays at all, I think they are pretty overworked - but they do seem to hype the kids up a bit about the holidays).

The long summer holidays I have not had to deal with yet but I dread - this year sounds like we will be lucky enough to have my parents come over from UK and will take the kids away all holidays and we can join them depending on what our jobs allow.

FF - that sounds great, hope that it continues. I do think opportunities for 'freelance' type work will keep increasing in general - so hopefully more opportunities for future generations to fit work around life rather than the other way round.

BD - that sounds frustrating. Uncertainty is always unsettling.

[wysiwyg]

Childcare don't have an extra day for DS :-( what do you reckon is better a day at another centre or try get family day care or nanny for just the one day? (he is already at Daycare 4 days, is 3 year old kinder age, likely to be able to get 5th day from 2016). He loves where he is (as do I) so wouldn't change the 4 he has. Rebate limit won't stretch over 5 days anyway so whether or not the care is applicable for that doesn't really matter.

Thoughts?

[Beautiful Disaster]

FDC charge by the hour not the day and I don't think nannies get the ccb/ccr. Do you have any family that could watch him? Reason I ask is if the answer is no and you call Centrelink and tell them that no one can watch him you have to work full time and you are gone from 6/630-530/6 they give you 60hrs covering that 5th day. I get this now only down side is you have to call and have the same conversation every 6 months

[wysiwyg]

No family, but I wouldn't be gone 10 hours that is one of the benefits of this new job if get it (they phoned me on Sun to make sure submitted refs so are very keen it seems, but will keep saying 'if' until have signed). I think our CCB would be minimal anyway and as far as I can tell that only effects CCB. Yes nannies don't get CCB/CCR generally yet but as CCB is minimal for us and CCR when paying 115 a day runs out half way through the year if using five days a week then I figured financially nanny or daycare wouldn't really matter for just one day (although I think for seven hours a nanny would surely cost more than childcare, plus not really so keen on that as our tiny flat is not such a fun environment, but maybe ok temporarily I suppose - people always say it to me "have you looked into using a nanny" but I must be missing something because can't I personally can't see how would work out better - perhaps if multiple children?)

[Beautiful Disaster]

Wow I thought 97 a day was high