u/CoolBandanaz

I worked as a travel agent for 2 years almost a decade ago. I loved the job, hated the company, and quit because I wanted to travel more that my employment contract allowed.

Recently I was approached to work with an independent broker doing a bit of admin while I relearn the industry and was encouraged and keen to build my client base. I have been back at it again part time/casually for 6months and the plan was to take 12-18m to build up a client base before I leave my full time job and give this everything I’ve got.

I have not messed anything up majorly, but I am making small stumbles regularly and finding this so difficult. For example, first booking was a flight for for a friend and it was a codeshare. This caused no issues for her but I can see now how it could have and should have booked it with the operating carrier. Also, issues navigating SABRE has resulted in my most recent booking being a fare that includes checked luggage but additional can only be added at checkin. While I told the client I needed to check with the airline before taking payment and confirming the additional bags and asked if she was still wanting to proceed with booking the flights at that time, I just feel incredibly frustrated with myself that I did not pick up on this before booking the tickets In the first place. Having to relearn and learn all of the details and processes through struggle is wearing me down.

Maybe I am just burnt out from doing so much and am being too hard on myself, but I am starting to wonder if I’m really just terrible at this job and should give up? I really want to make this work, as the opportunity would allow me the flexibility to work and travel exactly how I want to..

Cut it to me straight. Do I need to see a therapist about my perfectionism, keep learning and booking and growing.. or do I already sound like a lost cause for this job?

We sleep trained our Bub at 5m with CIO and after only a few days he was going to sleep quickly and independently and sleeping through the night.

Fast forward to 20m and we needed to put him in a single bed as he was climbing out of his cot. His sleep has been a total mess since.

My husband and I were barely sleeping for the first week. Bub was resisting sleep for hours just getting out of bed and walking to the door on repeat and waking up multiple times screaming for us. After a week of sleeping in his bed with him we did some research and decided the chair method would likely work and we have given it a go for the last week.

He now falls asleep for his nap more quickly (around 12:30pm) and without us in the bed with him (I am currently just on the floor beside his bed until he sleeps) and he is falling asleep around 8pm every night again which is fabulous!! He has even slept through the night twice since we started to get more strict on his bedtime routine and using this method. I have faith it is working!

However, if he does wake in the night/early morning the chair method is a struggle. He desperately wants to sleep on me and cuddle, to the point I have been awake with him for over 2 hours the last 2 nights leading him back to bed over and over and over again.

Any tips on how to manage that early morning wake without slipping into the habit of just getting into bed with him and cosleeping?

This may be a bit of a long shot and I can’t find the original post (may have been in the NZ sub or an nz finance sub?).

I am looking for the redditor who made a post looking for saving/budgeting tips as they were struggling to feed themselves and their dog.

I was mistakenly delivered 2x 18kg bags of dog food this week and only ordered one. I am wanting to give a bag to this person if I can find them.

Internet! Work your magic!