Hi all!
I have decided to change careers and now I have got the ball rolling I'm feeling a bit concerned (still excited!) about how I will manage.
It is a double diploma in beauty therapy and salon management, all online except for prac placement (should take 3 years part time to complete)
I already have an 18month old, and just found out I'm 5 weeks pregnant and only work casually at the moment.
My question is can anybody share their experiences with how to organise time to manage everything.
Im looking forward to this new chapter in our lives, I think I just need reassurance that I can do this.
Thankyou in advance!
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I would be open to using an extra day of daycare. It's really hard to work efficiently with a toddler in tow. You keep getting interrupted and everything takes so much longer than it needs to. You then just feel guilty and pulled in all directions. An extra day of daycare where your eldest is having fun, you can concentrate will mean more quality time with your kids overall.
Otherwise if they are good sleepers studying once they have gone to bed. It's definitely doable but I find in evenings I'm not motivated to do much of anything!
I am currently 29 weeks pregnant and have a 3 year old son at home. At the moment my son goes to daycare 1 day a week and his Grandad's another day so that it gives me 2 full days to study. On the weekends my Fiancé takes my son out for a few hours so I can also study then too. I am doing a Double Diploma as well. It is stressful, but just make sure on top of the study and kids you take sometime for yourself too.
Good luck.
I've studied with young kids on campus, while working fulltime. Jet provides subsidised child care. Not sure if it still exists as a program though.
It was INSANE good on you for going online. Online education wasn't very developed or widely available back then.
Get meals preprepped and ready to throw in the oven or slow cooker.
*slow cooker dump bags
*premade potato bake, pasta bake, vegetable slice, and meatloaf in disposable afoil trays are great for this. (I hate losing my cassarol dishes etc to the freezer.)
* precrumb or marinade cuts wing dings schnitzel and pack on grill trays in large ziplock bags ready to go straight in the oven.
These things make meals dead easy and prep is a few hours work on the weekend. Sometimes it's worth getting out the food processor and just grating multiple bowls of veggies and splitting it up into various dishes for the freezer to be ready to go. Planning meal prep this way seriously cuts down the total amount of time spent prepping meals each week by more than half.
Its also so much healthier than what you find in a stores freezer section, yummiest too.
Oh and don't expect to have a spotless house. That's just a given so what you can set aside time for housework and between.....dont look.