I have been between jobs for about a year, temping occasionally in a slow
market. I don't know when I will get a permanent job or where it will be.  I
may have to commute farther than I wanted to.  I've started looking as far as
25 miles away.

One reason it's taking so long is that many jobs in my field require extensive
overtime.  For someone balancing work and caregiving that is impossible.

Anyway, I want to start getting my mom to day care  a couple days a week to get
her used to it before I start working and hopefully then she'll go to daycare
every day.  But since I don't know where I will be working it could be that it
won't be possible to keep her in the same daycare place once I finally get a
job.  My top choice for day care is in kind of an out of the way location. I
know she could take transporation there but if I have to be at work by 8:00,
I'd have to get her on the Access or Citiride van by 7:00 at the latest so I
can get to work, and the daycare places don't all open that early.

Does anyone have an opinion as to whether it's a bad idea to switch day care
facilities?  If I get her to one particular one, then take a job that requires
us to move or makes that day care place logistically impossible for her to
attend, and have to switch her to another one, will that traumatize her too
much?

If I could get her to day care now it would make it easier for me to go on job
interviews without her fussing about being lonely, but I don't know what to do
about this.

Thanks!

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