I've been doing an office job 32 hours per week and gradually building up my business for the last 3 years doing evenings and weekends. I've also got 3 children so it's been really hard and yesterday I suddenly felt overwhelmed trying to do invoicing with 3 bored children and no time to actually do anything with them in the holidays, even struggling to get half an hour to make them a sandwich! I've been thinking about it for a while and did ask my boss if I could cut hours or have a job share but he said no so I had no choice really. I've been so busy with my home salon that I'm sure it will be fine and how I'm looking at it is if I'm too quiet after the summer I'll just get another part time office job with less hours. My job was very flexible and they let me work at home in the holidays but the thought of another 6 weeks trying to work here with the kids and then work every night and all day Saturday just filled me with dread!! Feel so relieved!