Early Childhood Educator

[Nina83]

Hi,

I have been self isolating for the past 4 weeks and feeling increasing pressure to be at work in the early childhood industry. I don’t drive and live a fair way from my centre and am feeling pressure from parents who are my employers as the centre I work for is a parent committee run centre. I am on unpaid leave and feeling like I want to resign from a job I have been doing for 20 years. Feeling helpless.

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Nina

Welcome to the forum and thanks for making your first post and starting a thread.

It is a difficult time to make a decision about changing job.

Is it hard for you to work with your parents? Do they know how you feel about your job.

Are you tired and what a change or do is there something else you want to try.

[Nina83]

I think I do need a change but with everything going on at the moment it is so overwhelming. It is really hard as I am part of management as well and they don’t seem to be taking health and safety of staff at all seriously. I have been advocating for staff wellbeing from home and getting a lot of grief from parents in the process. Thank you for taking the time to respond.