Currently I work 4 days a week in a fairly demanding job. We have one DS age 4, DH is a contractor and his current contract has long hours and a lot of weekend working.
I have had some health issues over the last 18 mths as well which will be ongoing.
I have been finding it increasingly difficult to cope at work and feel I am underperforming although my boss has confirmed that my performance meets expectations.
I do tend to over worry about things and take them personally, plus with the one day off it's hard to keep on top of things.
I had put in a request to reduce hours for DS starting preschool nursery so I could pick him up a couple of days as well as maintain my day off and then work a couple of longer days.But then I thought that this might be even harder as trying to cram the work into even less hours would be impossible and by the time DH is home in the evenings I don't have the inclination to log on in after DS is in bed ( besides I have mumsnetting to do).
So I discussed reducing grade and to me it seems like it might be a good solution as I maintain my benefits but salary would either be frozen or reduced, but hopefully my stress levels would as well so everything would become more manageable.
Sorry for long rambly post. Has anyone done this, or have any thoughts about it ?
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rookiemater · 15/06/2010 19:13
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