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What would you do with your time?
I am a SAHM Monday - Friday and I work from home on a Saturday and Sunday night. DS goes to preschool from 9am-1pm Monday to Thurday at the moment, but from October he will be going to big school from Monday - Friday from 8:45am - 3:15pm. I usually sleep on a Monday morning from working overnight Sunday and I do some volunteering on a Wednesday morning until about 11am.
So my question is, from October what would you do with your time if you were me? Would you get a full time job? Your pay would increase, but the school holidays would be a problem for you and your son has regular doctor appointments often. Would you study something? Would you just enjoy the time and have a perfectly spotless house all the time? Would you turn your hobby into a business? (I bake cakes for a hobby. I need to get better although I have had people pay me to make cakes in the past)
Re: What would you do with your time?
If the money would help, I'd try to get a part time, flexible job.
And I'd take one of Stanford's free courses. Win.
If you enjoy the cake baking, and have money cmoing in from your weekend job, I'd split my time between keeping the house in order (I dream about having child-free this!), enjoying a few hours off, and working on your baking business to see where it goes. It seems a perfect opportunity.
That said, are you thinking of ttc soon? If so, would there be any merit to a M-F daytime job (more hours/pay so more SMP?)... Just a thought. But I'd still lean towards keeping your current, working on turning a hobby to a job (handy when another baby comes along!) and doing what you currently do re: housework, volunteering, sleep, etc.
It depends on what you like to do and if you need the money. Since you already have a job on the weekend, I would try to turn my hobby into a job. Where are you living? I know a few people who actually got jobs working in the bakery at the supermarket in the USA, and they learned so much from it. One girl, actually started to sell cakes on the side and she did my brother's wedding cake. Maybe, you can get a PT job at a bakery.
I also love studying but that is the more expensive option. Maybe, you can take language classes.
We are thinking the end of this year, beginning of next year and that is something I have factored in. Its putting me off looking for a M-F daytime job. I am worried that I have a similar pg to my last one. I was on bedrest from 32 weeks. Had days before that where I could not walk because of hip pain even though I was wearing a support belt and was under physio. I also had pg induced hypertension so I had midwife or doc appointments every second day from around 32 weeks pg too. I know that every pg is different, but what if it is the same? I would feel guilty doing that to a new employer.
I have already done a cake decorating course and I learnt quite a lot. I would need to do a food safety course though.
Thats not a bad idea. We have a few quite a few bakeries around here, although I must admit that I find their cakes so boring.
This is the last cake that I made:
Its not perfect, but I am learning.
So pretty!!! A bakery could also be the good way of learning the business and making contacts. GL
I would spend time with my husband on weekends instead of working Saturday and Sunday night. Can you move your work schedule at all or is it not flexible?
I WAH and my work load ebbs and flows. Sometimes, I don't have enough time to get it all done when DD is in school and I have to do stuff nights and weekends. But when I have extra time, I just bask in it. It's not hard to find activities to fill 9am-3pm: coffee/lunch with friends, yoga/pilates classes, swimming if you're a member of a gym or Y, grocery shopping on my own instead of with DD in tow, trying super complicated recipes (especially baking) without anyone around to distract me, reading, taking language classes, meeting DH for lunch or even better, getting him to come home in the middle of the day, etc.
Getting a full-time job again is not on my radar for the forseeable future.
That is a fantastic looking cake!!! Wow!!
Do your food hygiene course, work a few months in a local bakery (part time) and then you will be better equipped to turn your hobby into a business. Their cakes may be boring but you would learn a lot from an operational point of you...
And I would think that you could pick your own hours with cake making/decorating which could fit around your family commitments.
Good luck with your decision!
Its not flexible at the moment as I am the dedicated Sat and Sun night person. It works for us because it means that DH and DS get a daddy and son day on Sunday, well morning at least. I like them having that time together, and then DH does bedtime routine on Sat and Sun nights.