Missing my part-time schedule

melody921

I know everything in life is a tradeoff, but ...

I used to work a job that was sort of dead-end, but I had an awesome schedule: 3 days a week, 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. I could leave work, go to the gym, pick up DS and still have time to prepare dinner, not rush around. And, of course, we had two days a week that we were home just us.

When I was pregnant with DD, I took a new job, which is WAY better career-wise and pay-wise, but it's full-time. Mostly, I don't mind working F-T, but recently it's been so crazy at work that I find myself really missing my P-T job. I just feel like every day is jam-packed. I get up at 5:30, work until 5 p.m., get the kids, DH and I rush through dinner, baths, bed, finish all the night-time chores and collapse in a heap so we can get up and do it all over. I am so glad right now that it's Friday.

WhitWed

I can't relate with the PT job because I've only ever worked FT, but I can definitely relate to the rushed feeling in the evenings. Sometimes I hate feeling that weekdays don't include enough quality time. There are some evenings we really make

jf198400

I know how you feel!  I was PT 4days a week at my last job.  Loved my schedule but hated my job (for many reasons).  I changed jobs and had to return to FT.  I still miss having that day at home with my kids.  But overall my life

melody921

WhitWed:

I can't relate with the PT job because I've only ever worked FT, but I can definitely relate to the rushed feeling in

itsmevkb

I can understand missing the extra time you had.  When I came back from my maternity leave this time I talked to my boss about using 2 hours of my vacation time a week to leave at 2:00pm every Tuesday.  It's amazing how just that extra 2 hours o