Cait Yardy, 27, works in a supermarket, as a private tutor and a social media content creator.
Her now two-year-old daughter was born with a complex health issue meaning returning to full-time work “wasn’t a priority”, she says.
Before they became parents, Cait had a part-time job in retail and her fiance worked full time. But that wasn’t enough.
“In order to pay off debt which we’d accumulated over my maternity leave and to, hopefully, be able to eventually start saving for a house, we realised that just those jobs weren’t cutting it anymore,” she says.
Her tutoring and social media jobs mean she can work from home with her daughter.
“We are hoping this is something that doesn’t have to be forever,” she says, adding she hopes to get a full time job when her daughter goes to school.
For now working three jobs is tough on family time. “I think probably the main challenges I have are being quite tired a lot of the time, especially with wanting to be a present mum and a present fiancée.
“We obviously don’t get a whole lot of time where all three of us are home together but it’s worth it, it’s what’s best for our future and it’s something that just has to happen at the moment,” she says.