Hi everyone first ever post on Mumsnet despite spending many hours on hear reading and being well out of the baby stage. Am just after some words of support really and I know what I'm going through is very common but hoping you can send me some thoughts and experiences which will help me through the fog. Before I had kids my career was everything to me was very successful earning a 6 figure salary, managing a big team blah blah. After my first maternity leave just finished in early 2011 I went back to the same company in part time project role which inevitably ended up being made redundant. I took another 18 months off as was pregnant again and went back to work again about a year ago to another job in the same field which I ended up being a disaster for many reasons and I resigned after 6 months. I quickly decided a change of sector was the right idea and as always seems to happen sailed through the interview process and find myself yet again in an exciting job in a new company which I started a week ago. So what's the problem - despite being outwardly confident I am suffering with massive self doubt and missing my 2 girls to the point where it is consuming me and I am constantly in tears. I seem to have forgotten all the positives from my earlier successful career and the fact that I seem to interview well and am just left feeling that I can't function in an office environment anymore. I feel like I am totally torn between being the high flying career woman I once was and the SAHM I so enjoyed being. I miss my girls terribly and a huge part of me feels like just chucking in the towel even though I've only been there a week. Just not sure I can cope with the tears and soul searching every night (and neither can my husband!). So not really sure what the question is was just hoping for some words of encouragement that I am not the only person that feels this way and that it will get better. I am not a quitter but just feel like curling up into a ball and crying at the moment.
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