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Anyone go PT? Advice Needed
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I feel like I've reached my limits with this FT schedule. I'm a director, so I have many responsibilities, and DH has a busy demanding job also, and the combination is just wearing me down. The past month I've been sick with this or that, I've missed 4 days of work and I really don't even care that much anymore - I am just fried.
I don't want to quit, but I want to try to regain some sanity in my life, so I am thinking about asking to reduce my responsibilities, cut back to 4 days three weeks out of the month, and 5 days one week a month (I'm an accountant, so I would work FT during close week). There is someone who works for me who could get a little bump to take over some of my responsibilities.
Has anyone done this and how did you go about it? Did you put everything down on paper first, or pitch it and then write down a detailed plan? Did you do a trial period, and then revisit after 90 days or so?
And if you did cut down to 4 days from 5 did it make that much of a difference in your sanity? I'm not even sure if this is going to be enough cutting back, but I'm thinking it's got to help, right? I'd love to go to three days, but that's not possible with my job and would mean looking for a new job entirely.
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Re: Anyone go PT? Advice Needed
Actually, it IS possible depending on your type of business and supervisor. One of my directors who playes a HUGE role at my job, now works part time 3 days a week. I think she partially telecommutes from home on the 2 days she's off, and comes in for mostly meetings the other days.
It's defintiely feasible, but just make sure you have a solid plan in writing, and pitches to your supervisors how going part time will save THEM money.
I'm seriously thinking of telecommuting myself (about 2 days a week), althoug my job is not at managerial status. I'm slowly gathering info from HR, and other websirtes on how to come up with a great presentation for my director.
Good Luck!
I went from working FT to PT, but I had to change jobs. There was a need in another dept where I already had training in and I asked if I could move to this other dept to help out on the condition I would work PT. Then when I am ready to go back to work FT I will have to go back to my old job. I basically just had a sit down with my supervisor and asked her to talk to the director about it. They agreed. It made a WORLD of difference going from 5 days to 3. It really helped me survive when DD was not STTN and I was still BF and pumping at work. Now that DD is more older, STTN, and now on all table food I am ready to go back to work FT.
There are other directors who work 4 days a week, but they are in other depts. There is also a Senior Manager in our dept who has been working three days a week for a few years now. She is going to 4 days a week next year, and is getting promoted to director at that time.
Telecommuting and reducing hours to PT are not the same thing at all. When you telecommute, you put your kid in daycare and work exactly as if you were in the office and on exactly the same schedule, but at home.
I approached my boss is April with the possibilty of working PT. I had a typed up proposal and a clause to revisit at 30 days, 90 days, and six months to see if it was working. He shot me down by the time I got the word part time out of my mouth. . . But I work in a male dominated company in a male dominated industry in a male dominated team so I didn't expect too much. They could just find a man who wouldn't want to work part time.
Sounds like you might have a better shot! Good Luck!