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Back into the Fray...

This entry will be a little more personal than my normal posts, but it is all relevant to my work. This week I have had heightened anxiety, last night my husband and I held hands as we went to sleep, both anxious about today, for today my husband returns to uni. I know that having a parent study is pretty common these days but that doesn't make it any less difficult. For a bit of background neither hubby or I have any formal education post high school, we have only ever worked in retail or hospitality (how we met) and that was fine for a time, but soon after our daughter was born we both realised the limits of long-term income and also both started craving a different career. Since I was still in my child-rearing years (I struggle to work or study whilst pregnant or with children under 2) hubby is the first to attend uni. Last year was his first year and was much harder than either of us expected, we did not expect the workload to be so huge and we also underestimated how difficu