Due back at work soon. I will be paying nearly 1000 for two children aged nearly 1 and 3. The childminder is very good so I don't mind paying her.
My question is: at what point is it not worthwhile to work fulltime and pay childcare? I am in a civil service job, earning 25K pa. I take home 400 a week. Childcare is 250, petrol and parking another 50. (I bring my own lunch to work). Therefore I should have about 100 euro for working the five days. I would like to work 4 days because it might be easier to fit in housework and be less of a mad dash. However, DH would prefer me to work the 5 days because kids are in a routine, and the extra 20 euro for the fifth day would pay towards petrol/parking.
I would just like to ask others: would you bother working the 5th day for such a small compensation? or is it wasteful to leave the extra few euros after me when we are in a recession.
Tks again
My question is: at what point is it not worthwhile to work fulltime and pay childcare? I am in a civil service job, earning 25K pa. I take home 400 a week. Childcare is 250, petrol and parking another 50. (I bring my own lunch to work). Therefore I should have about 100 euro for working the five days. I would like to work 4 days because it might be easier to fit in housework and be less of a mad dash. However, DH would prefer me to work the 5 days because kids are in a routine, and the extra 20 euro for the fifth day would pay towards petrol/parking.
I would just like to ask others: would you bother working the 5th day for such a small compensation? or is it wasteful to leave the extra few euros after me when we are in a recession.
Tks again