Community Posts, Tips & Support on Work & Money

You know when you start a new job & they ask about any holidays you've got booked & they've gotta let you take it/honour it cuz it was before you've joined with them? Is it the same if you're returning from maternity leave & what is that called? I'm returning this Thursday 🥹🔫🔫🔫& my birthday is next month & I…

I feel so guilty as back to work tomorrow. I’m working 3 days a week and won’t see my baby for like 10-11 hours on days working. I’m so worried she won’t love me the same anymore. I know that probably sounds stupid but it’s just a fear I can’t shift!

I’m a stay at home mom who can’t really afford to go back to work right now, I’d like to start a business with little to no start up money but that can generate a minimum of 1k in profit a month. Anyone have any suggestions or experience doing this?

Either through shopify, amazon or Etsy? Looking for some advice to start selling online preferably Amazon.

Basically cut a long story short I went on may leave in January 24 had my baby a few days into maternity leave and planned on taking the year, in June when my baby was 5 months old I found out I was pregnant again! Ever since iv been in a bit of a whirlwind and I’m soo unsure of what’s going to happen in terms of ma...

Can anyone recommend who to bank with for your joint bank account? We both want to keep our seperate bank accounts and have a joint one to put our mutual direct debits into and savings and to be able to both have access and spend from it - any recommendations welcome! I’m currently with Halifax and he is with HSBC.

I’m looking for a WFH job in the UK. I’d like something that’s flexible due to my husbands shift patterns. Please let me know what you all do ☺️

Currently a stay at home mom but needing to get a job. Hoping to find something that pays enough to make it worth it. Not sure what to do that doesn’t require lots of schooling. Any ideas to look into? Anything remote? I do not have a degree but feel I need to start making my own money to support myself and my chil...

I want to get into trading with stocks and shares. Would you recommend it?

Hello ladies, I need help please I am not enjoying sex Where in Europe can I have a full medical checkup? I don’t think the NHS can offer me any help right now. I feel pain and burning all the time, they keep telling me it’s thrush but this has been happening for over a year now I can’t get pregnant if I can’t...

does anyone know of any jobs going in wolverhampton please i’ve been applying for so long now and either not being accepted or they don’t get back to me feel like giving up😔

As a full time SAHM. Do you ask your partner for money? Or does he automatically send you money every month?

Hi everyone, my LG is 3 and a quarter months old, just want to know when it is there and age I should consider letting her grandparents watch her? I’m still on maternity leave and I can’t even think about letting them watch her whilst I’m off, am I doing the wrong thing or making a rod for my own back by not letti...

Hi ladies! I am currently on maternity leave and have a well paying job, but I keep seeing moms being able to make SAHM work and I have some questions. We really need to be a double income household to pay for our mortgage and all so I’m curious how others are doing it. I have a 2 year old daughter and a 2 month ol...

Does anyone know if NJ has a paid sick leave benefit to apply to? My nausea is very bad I am hardly functional and have already used my sick hours from my employer. Is there a paid sick leave benefit similar to maternity leave, where with a doctors note, you can be out for 4 weeks but receive benefits? This was a th...

My partner and I have just split but at present are still living together. I’ve applied for universal credits and housing costs as I only work 24 hours a week so will struggle financially particularly after I move out! Anyone in a similar situation that has any idea how much I’m likely to be paid? Or any extra suppo...

I’m looking at changing the amount I work because I am so miserable at my current job. If I change I will have to go up to 40 hours for financial reasons. No other company will pay me my current wage to work 4 days. I’m feeling mum guilt for losing my day off I use in the week to spend with my child but I feel so ...

If anyone is savvy with money stuff, please reply 😇 Shared parental leave is new to me and i’m keen to find out more. Sorry if my terminology is off below! I plan to take a year off. If we do SPL, when i ‘return to work’ (during school hols) does my partner HAVE to take that time off and have SMP for those weeks,…

Can someone tell me more about this? I work as support staff at a school. My partner works in sales. How does would it work? I have heard of school staff ‘going back to work’ during the school holidays during mat leave (ie not really working as its holidays), getting paid full, and partner gets the time off, then ...

i applied for maternity grant ages ago and got a message from them on 8th october saying they are processing my claim. however i got a message saying UC closed my claim ages ago as i haven’t been entitled for ages due to working when pregnant then going on maternity allowance when i left to have baby. will i still b...