Sometimes going back to your
old employment does fit in with
your new family. We spoke to
local mum Sarah about her
decision to leave work,
purchase into a well known
franchise and become self
employed.
the perfect opportunity. I now
spend Mondays and Wednesdays
teaching classes, with Tuesdays
spent working for our family firm.
On Thursdays and Fridays I put
on a different hat and am
“Mummy” all day.
TinyTalk is a franchise, which
As a secondary school teacher, I means that there’s a Head Office
loved my job. There were so
who deal with everything from in-
many benefits, not least of which terviews and training to lesson
was that I got to spend the majori- plans and resources. One of the
ty of my time with funny, interest- massive benefits to me is that the
ing and interested teenagers –
planning is nowhere near as oner-
they do exist! However, after the ous as it was teaching in a
birth of my son Oliver in 2013, I
school, although I do like to make
found that I’d lost my love of the
my own tweaks! They are a con-
job. Happily, I was in the very for- stant support to me, especially
tunate situation whereby we could after my recent diagnosis of epi-
afford for me to rethink whether
lepsy.
the career I’d envisaged for my-
As a franchisee, I am effectively
self really was going to work for
self-employed which means that I
our family.
am able to manage my own work-
load, which would be much more
difficult in a more traditional work
I had attended TinyTalk classes
environment. Whilst I recognise
with Oliver from the age of 4
that we are in a very fortunate
months up until he was nearly
financial position to allow me to
two. We both loved attending
take a drop in salary, many of my
class; Oliver adored his teacher
colleagues rely on their income
and I loved the atmosphere and
from classes to support their
chance to learn whilst socialising.
families – and do it well!
When the possibility came up to
run classes of my own, it seemed