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May 2012 Moms
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Career plans-poll (not clicky)
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What is your current career status:
Current job?
Full-time or Part-time?
Commute time?
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work?
Change from full-time to part-time?
Change employers or positions?
Change in commute time?
Change in salary?
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Re: Career plans-poll (not clicky)
Current job? Electrical engineer with the federal government
Full-time or Part-time? Full-time
Commute time? 20ish minutes, with the current construction 45 minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? No, not an option in my position
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? Maybe add to it to pick her up from daycare
Change in salary? I hope not, unless it goes up!
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Current job? Web Creative Director for publishing company
Full-time or Part-time? Full time
Commute time? 15-20 minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? No
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? No
Change in salary? No
What is your current career status:
Current job? Behavior Specialist Consultant/Mobile Therapist
Full-time or Part-time? Part-time right now
Commute time? Depends where I am going each day but typically no more than 20 mins
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? Will be full-time by then
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? No
Change in salary? Yes, a full-time salary
Current job? Nanny
Full-time or Part-time? 32 hours a week
Commute time? 30 minutes each way
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? No
Change from full-time to part-time?
Change employers or positions? (Maybe become self employed in-home daycare provider)
Change in commute time? 0 minutes!!
Change in salary? 0 dollars.
I opted to work as a nanny after graduating college instead of pursuing my original career plans because my husband was hired as an Air Traffic Controller, so he works odd hours and has week days off instead of weekends. I knew I'd want to stay home with our kiddos when we had them so I chose to do a job I knew it'd be easy to leave to take care of my own little one!
Current job? Teacher
Full-time or Part-time? Full
Commute time? 5 mins.
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? Same
Change employers or positions? Same
Change in commute time? Same
Change in salary? Same
Current job? At home daycare provider
Full-time or Part-time? 47+ hours a week
Commute time? I don't have one
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? yes
Change from full-time to part-time? no
Change employers or positions? no
Change in commute time? no
Change in salary? I'll be adding another child in 3 weeks so I'll make more but it's unrelated to me having another baby.
What is your current career status:
Current job? SAHM
Full-time or Part-time? Extremely full time!
Commute time? No commute :-)
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? I will continue to be a SAHM, at least for the immediate future
Change from full-time to part-time? Next fall I might try to find a part-time position outside the home.
Change employers or positions? Possibly
Change in commute time? Possibly
Change in salary? Possibly
Current job? I work full time in real estate and also own a photography business
Full-time or Part-time? RE job is full time, and photography hours vary -- sometimes I work 10 hours a week and sometimes 60
Commute time? 30 minutes for my day job, varies for photography sessions
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? I will continue with my photography business but quit my real estate job
Change from full-time to part-time? I will still work 40 most weeks but it will be less than I'm working now since it will be one job, not 2, and I will have flexible hours and can do a lot of things from home
Change employers or positions? see above
Change in commute time? Commute time will vary
Change in salary? I will make less, since I will be dropping one job, but it's not worth paying for full time daycare if I stayed at my day job
Jealous!! Our steps have been frozen for THREE YEARS so I'm still at the base salary like I was when I graduated college....
Current job? Physical Therapist - Home Health & Women's Health Outpatient
Full-time or Part-time? Full-time (home health) & Part-time (WH)
Commute time? Varies, I do PT in home.
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes, but I will likely not go back to my part-time position
Change from full-time to part-time? I might possibly cut down my ful-time patient load
Change employers or positions? not until we move
Change in commute time? no change
Change in salary? Unless they want to pay me more :O)
What is your current career status:
Current job?
-I work for my church nursery as often as possible, but generally unemployed.
Full-time or Part-time?
-Mega part time
Commute time?
-15 Minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work?
-Unfortunately I have to. But my current job is something I'll be doing for years, Im sure.
Change from full-time to part-time?
-Looking for full time nanny job
Change employers or positions?
-Change meaning actually acquiring one
Change in commute time?
-Wherever I find a job will be no more than 30 minutes, hopefully less
Change in salary?
-Like, 10 times more.
Current job? Public Accountant
Full-time or Part-time? Full Time
Commute time? 20 minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? Hoping to keep it at 30 hours a week, some of that working from home
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? No
Change in salary? Yes
Current job? Mental Health Therapist and temp office worker
Full-time or Part-time? Both part time
Commute time? 45 minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? I have another therapist covering my group and if any individual clients are in crisis I will have a therapist for them as well. I will return to my therapy practice as soon as I feel up to it. (FTM so I'm not sure how I am going to feel)
Change from full-time to part-time? I hope to land a full time gig again after the baby and postpartum healing
Change employers or positions? Self employed. Hope to get some hours with an employer as well
Change in commute time? who knows
Change in salary? That already happened when I left my full time gig six months ago and a new job fell through. Any change has got to be in increase from where I am now
What is your current career status: employed
Current job? Teacher
Full-time or Part-time? Full
Commute time? 15 minutes one way
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes, unfortunately. I don't have to go back until Sept. 1st though
Change from full-time to part-time? still full
Change employers or positions? same school
Change in commute time? Might be a little longer since I will be dropping LO off at daycare. Luckily the in home daycare is only a block away from our house
Change in salary? I got a raise this year, but we have to negotiate a contract next year again
I'm a SAHM. I was an attorney with a big law firm until DS was born.
I'll go back to work when this baby starts school.
Current job: Teacher
Full Time
Commute time: 1.5 hours each way
Plans after LO arrives:
Taking a year maternity leave (With having to pay for daycare and gas... not much financial difference in taking the full year off or going back to work early.... and I'm OK with that!) I'll continue to do distance courses towards my Master's during that time.
Then trying to get work closer to home... if I don't I'll probably have to substitute teach instead...Which is really crappy because I love my job... I just can't handle the commute with a baby at home. Substituting will mean a reduction in salary for sure...
Current job? Stay at home Mom/ Full-Time Nursing Student
Full-time or Part-time?
Commute time? Right now my commute on school days consists of nearly 3 hours round trip, due to my DD current daycare placement. We are looking into finding her some other place to go that is closer to school right now so hopefully that will end soon.
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? I may renew my CNA license so that I can work part-time weekends while I am in school. That depends though on how it goes handling two kids and school.
Change from full-time to part-time?
Change employers or positions?
Change in commute time?
Change in salary?
Current job? Project Manager
Full-time or Part-time? Full time
Commute time? 15 min
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes.
Change from full-time to part-time? Still full time.
Change employers or positions? Hopefully, I will be getting promoted shortly after
Change in commute time? None.
Change in salary? Hopefully, I will get a raise with aforementioned promotion.
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Woke up. Still queen.
What is your current career status:
Current job? Call center : mostly on the phones but I'm also the backup trainer
Full-time or Part-time? Full-time
Commute time? 45mins
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? I have 1yr mat leave then I'll have to start bringing in $$ again
Change from full-time to part-time? Not sure yet
Change employers or positions? I won't be going back to my current job unless we're desperate, I'm so miserable there, they've taken enough of my soul. I hope to build up my freelance translating during mat leave time and hopefully it will grow enough to support our bills
Change in commute time? Hopefully I'll be working from home so 0mins
Change in salary? Likely similar to my current min wage for awhile
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What is your current career status:
Current job? attorney with the government
Full-time or Part-time? full time
Commute time? 20 minutes
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? No
Change employers or positions? Not unless I get promoted here
Change in commute time? no
Change in salary? no, not unless I get promoted
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
What is your current career status:
Current job? Licensed home daycare provider
Full-time or Part-time? Very full time
Commute time? None
Plans after LO arrives:
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? I've been reducing the number of kids I have and will continute that for a while after LO is born so that everyone gets enough attention.
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? No
Change in salary? Yes, I will be making A LOT less than I was, but it is worth it for my sanity and for the level care I want to be able to provide to the children I have in my care..including my son and future baby.
Current job? Attorney
Full-time or Part-time? Full-time
Commute time? 20 minutes each way
Plans after LO arrives: Take approximately 16 weeks of maternity leave
Will you continue to work? Yes.
Change from full-time to part-time? Nope. Remain full-time
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? No
Change in salary? Not unless I get a raise
Current job? I'm an environmental engineer with a NASA contractor
Full-time or Part-time? Full-time
Commute time? About 30 minutes usually, it's almost 14 miles from my house to my office
Plans after LO arrives: Stop full-time working with plans to do some consulting from a home-base business, but not starting that for at least 6 months-1 year after the baby is born
Will you continue to work? Nope, I plan on being a SAHM but would like to do something part-time on the side starting around 6 months after
Change from full-time to part-time? I'd like for my job to never take away time from my kids, so I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to full-time until they're in grade school
Change employers or positions? Haha, I guess my new employer is me!
Change in commute time? I have to say, I will not miss the commute!
Change in salary? I'll lose my salary, but I'll get 6 weeks if disability payment after the birth. My husband and I are both engineers, but he makes $15K more than I do, and we've always planned on me staying at home
What is your current career status: employed
Current job? I work in television
Full-time or Part-time? Full time (40+ hrs), but a compressed schedule, so I work 3.5 days a week.
Commute time? Awesome, 8 min!
Plans after LO arrives: take approx 2 months off work
Will you continue to work? Yes
Change from full-time to part-time? No
Change employers or positions? No
Change in commute time? Yes, I'll have to drive about 15 min out to daycare, then 15-20 min back into work. Including drop off I'm estimating an additional 45 min just for that. It's only 3 days though. DH will be doing pickup.
Change in salary? None