I DO appreciate being able to work part-time, and having an understanding boss who was prepared to let me reduce my hours when I had the DCs.
But AIBU to be fed up that everyone thinks I should be just so grateful all the time for being able to work part-time. I work 50% hours, and to get my work done I have to bring a lot home to do, I am very regularly on the phone to clients in my 'free-time', getting texts to check my emails etc. I arrange all doctors appts etc in my own time, and go into work very early to have any chance of getting my work done. If I worked full time, I would get double the pay I get now and actually be paid for the hassle!
And yet all people ever tell me is how lucky I am to be working part-time. I feel like shouting 'I only get paid half the money you know!'. Why does it always feel like you are being done a huge favour for which you must be eternally grateful?
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to think people don;t seem to understand that if I work half/part-time, I only get half the money?
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undercovamutha · 03/03/2011 18:07
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