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September 2022 Babies 🇺🇸

Working from Home?

This may be a long shot, but I’m hoping someone in here might have some advice or suggestions. I’m a teacher, which is a pretty nice job for a mom as far as the hours go. Summer break ended last week, and I’m already having so much stress and anxiety about being away from my baby, close to what I felt after my maternity leave ended. My sitter had to cancel tomorrow and possibly the day after because her husband went to the ER today. My partner and I don’t have a backup sitter. I tried to find one all summer. My family all works, and his don’t live close. My partner is off tomorrow but works late tonight, so I’m nervous about leaving my daughter with him if he doesn’t get more than a couple hours of sleep. I’m worried about this issue with my sitter’s husband extending and that she might not be available. I tend to spiral lol. All of this could be avoided if I could find a job that lets me work from home. I’ve looked, but I feel like I’m not qualified to do anything but teach. And honestly, after 19 years of it, I don’t want to do it anywhere else, even online. So I’m going out on a limb and asking if any of you have a work from home job that lets you be with your kids, or at least understands if you need to have them every so often. I’m in Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, I need to make around 55-60k a year to make our ends meet, so I feel like that really limits any possibilities I might have. Advice? Suggestions? Thank you if you’ve read this far.