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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That arrangement sucks. Also, you say your hours will be 1-9 p.m. but in a later post say you don't know what your hours will be
 I don't mean to sound rude, but frankly,  I would put off the job until your child is in preschool,  it sounds like you could get this job anytime. What did you do before you had your DC?[/quote]

Op. My hour's could be anytime between 1 - 9 pm but I will have my schedule when training starts. I could work as little as 15 hour's per week to begin with. This job is seasonal with potential to be full time. I do have a very close friend who wants to take care of my son in the weekday afternoons. The job was not hard to get so I am confident that I could get it again in the future. I really do want to work. I am just a bit afraid I may be setting myself up to fail. I wish we had a bigger place. I really concerned about the noise from my son. [/quote]

My recommendation is that you start with two or three days a week.  You take your friend up on her offer to watch your child weekday afternoons on the days you work.  See if your job has flexibility on which days you work.  If so, then see if your friend is willing to set a schedule for 3 days a week 2 weeks in advance, so this week, it is M-W-F, next week is M-T-Th and so on.  Or if your friend is willing to work a set schedule (say M-W-F every week).  Then you watch your child in the mornings until you put him down for nap.  When your child gets up from nap, you call your friend if she is willing to come pick him up or you take a break from work to take your son to your friend's house.  She watches him at her place until your husband gets off work and he can pick your son up.  Your husband picks up your son and brings him home and takes care of dinner for the two of them (you could join them on your "lunch" break, since you have to eat).  Your husband watches your son until bed time.  If she cannot watch him at her place, then you call her when nap is over and she comes over and you go into the bedroom to work and she watches him in the living/dining room area.

Set up your apartment with a network connection in the bedroom and the living room (I assume you mean one bedroom with a door and not a studio apartment).  Use a laptop.  When son is napping in the bedroom, you work out in the living or dining room.  When he goes over to your friends house, you move into the bedroom.  When Dad and son come home, you close the bedroom door and they have the living/dining room and kitchen.  If you are not done with your work schedule when your son is ready for bed, you move the laptop back out to the living/dining room and son goes into the bedroom to sleep.  You keep the door closed if your son is home and you are working so that you always have a door between the two of you.

Rather than a closet, I would recommend you try to get one of those work surfaces that fold up to the wall like a murphy bed.  You pull it down and set up your laptop when you are working and you put it up and away when you are not.  When your son is sleeping, you can work from the kitchen/dining room table, wherever you normally eat meals.  You shouldn't be working there often, just during the end of nap and if he goes to bed before you are done working.  Here are a few types of fold up desks that might work (and at different price points):

[url]https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdx/rebrilliant-borba-folding-desk-rebr5473.html[/url]
[url]https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/cancio-click-99-rectangular-floating-desk-cnio1002.html[/url]
[url]https://www.hayneedle.com/product/southernenterprisesfoldoutconvertibledeskwhite.cfm[/url][/quote]

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