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Should I change jobs?

Right now I have a job that involves about 85% travel and I've just had a baby.
I knew this would happen and I assumed I could do it for one more year and hope for a promotion during that time because talks were starting of me moving up before I announced my pregnancy.
I really love my job but it also takes up way too much of my time even on my off hours I'm preparing to meet with customers and I'm doing reports. A promotion would mean way more time working from home. I would love to stay within my own department and get promoted.

A new position that I'm very qualified for at my company just opened up that's fully remote in a different department and I would only lose about 20% of my salary which means the pay would be pretty good for a fully remote job that has no after hours work and no clients that contact me directly.

This would afford me the ability to go live part time at my Airbnb which hasn't opened up yet due to me needing to be there to finish things up. So it's a win win.

Trouble is I find it really hard to change things and I'm currently on maternity leave and I feel it would kind of be backstabbing to switch departments while I'm on maternity leave and they're like waiting for me to come back and take on my customers. I had my baby at an older age and I really hate the idea of being gone away from home most of the time. I've done this before where I've procrastinated about making decisions that will better my life but I find it really hard to pull the trigger and just apply.
But, I don't think I will like the remote job nearly as much as the job I have now it'll be alot more micromanaged.
But I've always wanted to live a more nomadic freeier life and remote work goes towards that goal.
With my current travel job I make my own schedule which sounds great but ultimately I usually end up working longer hours than average so making my own schedule really is not benefit but also I'm my own boss in a way because we travel and don't have to see our supervisors and we do what we want.
The remote job would involve being recorded and timed and stuff I don't like.
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Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
Why don't you let them know when you're back and tell em you've been thinking about it. You can negotiate a time to give room to find someone. That makes sense to me.
REMsleep · 41-45, F
@Ryannnnnn That's sounds great but then the remote job will probably be gone by that time