If you have a job that fits well around your kids, what is it?

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I am looking for a career change, something that will hopefully give me a better sense of job satisfaction.

I have 2 young DC, aged 3 & 1 and they are my priority. I am looking for 30 hours per week max, where I will get weekends off and I can be present during my time with my kids.

If you have a job like this, what is it?

Have you looked at a university if you have one locally? They often have plenty of administration/project support roles - usually good pay and pensions. I work at a London university and many of my colleagues are part time. We can work our hours flexibly

I’m a midwife. I teach pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes to loop. It is the ultimate in flexible work. My manager is incredible and inspiring as well.

I dod over a decade of hideous work on Labour ward etc before this though. It was horrific for family life.

A technician in a school.
Mine are 2 and 5.
I do 9.15- 5.15 mon-thurs.
My DH wfh so does all the puck ups then makes his hours up on Fridays. I do all the drop offs.
Key to it is I'm term time only. Money is pretty crap but the lack of holiday care costs makes up for it.

I work on our family farm as an agricultural secretary. Great job for fitting in with school hours. You can dictate to your clients when you work by picking the ones you want to do. Not bad pay but not trillions either. Tend to be self employed.

Look up Institute of Agricultural secretaries for more information.

I work in a school office and my hours don't work around school times at all. Kids are at school and childcare from 8-5 Mon-Thurs.

I have an interview for the Civil Service next week. More money, I can do school drop off and pick up every day, WFH, flexi-time and amazing pension. I'm so praying I get it!! Also single parent.

@FormerlySpeckledyHen I'm going for an interview for this exact job- can I ask what you think of it ( sorry for the hijack)

Oh that sucks. I should add I’m part time and my manager absolutely doesn’t work school hours at all. I hope you get the job

Definitely appears to be very flexible. I have neighbours who both work in civil service and always there for school drop off and pick up. I don't know many jobs like this!

I am a self employed marketing consultant for small organisations that don't have in house marketing expertise - in a niche area that I can't specify as it's outing. Started out with one client at a time and fallow periods between - now have four regular clients and have to turn new offers of work down every few weeks. I work while kids are at school with the odd hour off to go for walk with friends or have coffee. Occasionally have to catch up at weekends but rarely. It's perfect - i can still do school run and lifts to after school clubs. Nowhere near enough to live on but luckily we don't rely on my earnings!

@Lemonademoney ah I see, that makes more sense as I am full time. Thank you, I'm keeping everything crossed 😊

I work for a water company and find it to be very flexible. Lots of people work part time, compressed hours or shortened days to fit in with the school run. Lots of entry level roles just require people with common sense and then it’s easy and quick to work your way up. There’s all sorts of roles too, though some of them have funny titles that you’d never think you’d be suitable for, but once you read the job description most of what they ask for is transferable skills. Everything else can be picked up on the job.

Oh and when I worked full time I did 2 “long” days (9-6) and put my DS in after school club, then picked him up at normal time the rest of the week. Some days I’d have to do an hr or so of work when we got home but I tended to leave the east admin bits till then.

Academic. Couldn’t have coped as a single mother in the private decor in my field.

Two income household. But also, when I bought my first home, it was the nineties. Back then, a young single girl on a low salary could buy a perfectly nice one bedroom flat. Those days are of course sadly long gone.

Some Admin jobs in the NHS can be flexible Op, may be worth looking into, not sure it fits the job satisfaction box though.

I work full time as a loss adjuster. Have been on my own with 2 teens for the last 4 years.

I can book my appointments while they're at school and do my admin once I've done the school pick up.

The pay isn't bad at £45k

I'm a solicitor, so a bit different route into the civil service. I've got to be in the office 40%, and work 4 days over 5. I do two long days in the office (where DP does drop off and pick up) and 3 short days.

I WFH full time (as an in-house lawyer) and it's great. Most of my colleagues do too, including members of the recruitment team, admin support, IT etc etc, with a large amount of flexible working and part time hours.

Would recruitment/HR be of interest maybe? I'm sure you have the transferable skills and the people I know in those kind of roles seem to love it for the most part.

Random example but something like this? The say 'We offer a flexible working environment where you can work from home to suit your needs'

www.totallylegal.com/job/3895187/recruitment-assistant/

BTW in my experience many roles that say they're hybrid can be negotiated down to full time WFH with maybe a couple of days in the office per month so they're worth a shot.

I've got 2 kids 1 at school and 1 that goes to nursery when I'm working.

I'm an accountant. I work 3 days a week and have wkends off and flexi time. It's 22.5hrs. I work from home and it's very flexible. I can pick my daughter up from school and have her here for last couple of hours. I can also attend things at school and make up the time. Sometimes I have to work late after they've gone to bed to meet a deadline but it's not that often and I get the time back. Pension is great too and holidays are generous. Can build up flexi to take extra days off.

It's public sector so I cld be earning a lot more elsewhere but while kids are little I'll stay where I am and it's still gd money.

Yes to this. I work for one of the orgs 'under' defra. 9-3 weekdays.

School office term time

Busy job, rubbish pay (I rely on my husband but then we save on school holiday child care)

I agree with PP about being able to negotiate. I saw a job ad last week which said they had 2 x full time positions available. It was exactly what I was looking for in terms of the role, so I rang them and asked if they would consider an application from someone looking to work 3 days a week and they said they would, and asked me to mention it within the application. I've been shortlisted for interview so it doesn't seem to have put them off me too much.

Civil service too. 28 hours over 4 days. Flexi time and combination of WFH and office. Lots of opportunities to progress fairly quickly for people who want career progression. Find it works great with the kids. You can set up job alerts on the civil service jobs website.

Self employed cleaner. Love it!