u/RopePositive

Hello! I am 36F, in Australia, and need a career change. For my first 12 working years, I was a youth worker, supporting homeless youth in a supported home situation. Then the last 4 years I have been managing the house, which involves budgeting, managing staff and working with families.

It’s time for a change, and I’m interested in being a draftsperson/architectural designer. I’m good with computers and spacial puzzles, I like drawing, and I feel I have given all I can in my previous role.

While I retrain, what entry level roles can I do to get in and around the world I want to enter? Any advice from people who have done big career changes in their 30s?

I am currently on maternity leave with a beautiful little baby conceived via IVF. My workplace has generous fertility leave, I can claim 15 days a year of leave for fertility appointments.

I’m not planning on doing IVF for at least another few years (if at all) but I’d sure like a few days off across the year (like 4/5 days, nothing crazy).

What sort of treatment might a person need that would require an appt before undertaking ivf? The actual treatment cycles are too intensive to claim, my boss is aware that egg retrieval or placing eggs need a few days off, and I don’t want to be asked how a cycle went and then have to claim it didn’t take.

Is there something you needed to get under control before undertaking ivf that needed a maintenance appointment every so often?

“We’ve almost got it - rewrap them and don’t look at the camera this time”

“No one will want that old stuff, there’s been no need for sweaters in Canada for the last 20 years.”