The effects of the credit crunch march on with new figures revealing 70% of stay-at-home mums are looking to return early to full-time employment.
In doing this, of course, the children will have to be looked after by paid help, which is increasing in cost, and so most of the money earnt by returning to work is blown on childcare. And so the vicious circle continues.
Some parents try and break the cycle by setting up franchises or taking up work-from-home opportunities. Good luck to them but have you actually done the maths on some of these things, you can invest £1000's just to break even in the first few years, hardly beneficial to cash flow.
So what to do? Go to work and be skint or stay at home and be skint?
If you have marketable skills that you've spent years using and honing do you think there are businesses out there that could use those skills? Bloody right there is! Especially in this climate there are businesses that are screaming for all sorts of things that they want doing, from legal work to engineering, but they don't want to fork out for a full time employee.
Take a look at our website where we try to give parents looking for flexible work or a business opportunity another option in the work-life struggle that many are facing.
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