To ask if you work full or part time and the reasons why?

[BabyNextYear25]

My sister received news today she would not be able to return to work full time as there isn't capacity. She was a little annoyed as her youngest will be in school and she's bored at home.
It got me thinking, the vast majority of my female friends and family work part time. It would be my dream to work part time but it's not feasible at the moment. Um curious to see how many women work part time, and what is there reason behind it? But also full time as well.
My reason is simple- I was single parent and I couldn't pay my mortgage on one wage.

30 hours a week.
Reasons:

• I earn a lot so bring home more in those hours than i need
• Doing 5 would put me in a position where I'd pay a huge amount of tax on the extra, due to loss of tax free band, so its not worth it
• I combine the reduced hours with some days working from home so only need childcare for school aged DC 2 days a week.

At 30 hours i feel almost full time and have found senior roles are open to me that wouldn't be at less hours.

Full time. We need the money.

I work part time doing Bank mental health nursing (NHS). On average 25-30 hours a week. Mortgage is repaid, reasonable savings, no kids, have an NHS pension in place, and don't have expensive tastes so would rather have work life balance. Can do more shifts if I need more money.

Part time as in all honesty couldn’t cope with full time.

Also child has lots of medical appointments and was constantly having to make up time which is harder to do when full time.

That's like me, I work 4 days a week with Wednesday off. I have a chronic pain condition and don't see myself ever being able to work full-time again ☹️

Full time. I'm the higher earner in our household, dh also works full time but earns half what I do so we'd be much worse off if I went part time. Also, I love my job and he doesn't love his, the plan is for him to go part time eventually once I am earning enough for him to do so.

*PamelaParis · Today 18:34

I'm single without kids and I work part time because I hate working so like to do as little of it as possible.*

If you can afford to do that good on you!

Part time but I've got no reason to be. I'd rather go full for more money but my company doesn't have the budget.

Part time, despite needing to work full time financially.
I just can’t physically work more hours, the hours I do work make me ill and suffer pain as it is.

Part-time. But only for the past 10 months. Before that I worked full-time in the same job for the last 10 years. The reason I've dropped days is because I returned from maternity leave and there's no way I'd put my son in childcare full-time. Thankfully I have the choice.

Almost FT. 36 hours. Because I prefer to be stressed than broke. I have an average salary, as does my partner, so we have a pretty decent household income collectively, but me working PT would change that and I wouldnt want to rely on partner as a main bread winner. My job couldn't really go down to proper part time either as its too busy.

I put up with the stress because I want to know that I can buy shoes for my kids when I need them and working PT would not guarantee that. I do envy those that can work PT and still have a comfortable life.

I’ve been PT since my children were born (they’re 15 and 18 now). I don’t need to work full-time because I have a small extra income from a flat rental. My DH works for himself and his hours can be erratic- he goes through very busy phases where we see much less of him so it’s always worked well for us to have me working PT so I can take on more of the life admin, household stuff etc. When money is a bit tighter, I sometimes do some overtime to boost the funds. It feels like a fortunate position to be in.

I feel totally the opposite.

If you have no responsibilities then why add extra stress to your life?

So many people these days medicated to the hilt and then you look at their life and think - no wonder!

They make things hard for themselves.

Tbf, some people love their jobs. Or live in places where money wise they need to be working full time. Especially when single. But if you CAN afford part time and have savings...I don't understand why you'd bother with full time.

Tbf though, some ppl want nice things in life too. I'm happy enough with my battered old charity shop sofa and a good Korean drama. I guess I value my free time but some people value nice things more.

32 hours working mon/tue/Thurs/Fri while he was little (I went back to work after 11 months). Once he started school I changed to 7 weeks off in the school holidays. Mainly so I don't have to faff about sorting childcare for all the holidays. Costs me £10k a year not working those 7 weeks but it's worth it to get to go on adventures in the holidays.

I was part-time for a while, then I gradually increased back to full-time. I appreciate the extra money, and I want to improve things for my family.

Also a single parent so I have no choice but to work full time and will probably need to do so until I retire but I'm tired of it.

Part time, 4 days spread over 5 so I’m around for DC after school. They need more of me than the average as eldest has some SN and both have been impacted by the death of DH (plus it gives me just enough time to keep vaguely on top of things at home on my own)

I'm part time (2 days) because my DD is disabled and I'm her carer, I use my spare time to catch up on paperwork, have meetings with school, organise appointments for DD (she has some on NHS and some private) and generally have a bit of time to myself.

I'm technically part-time (I work 40 weeks a year - term time plus 2 weeks at a school) but during those 40 weeks I work full-time. It was a no-brainer for me, as I'm still earning more than I was previously on but I can look after the kids every school holiday and don't need to worry about childcare in the holidays.

I returned to work part time when my daughter was 8 and then gradually built up to full time. My work was term time only and mostly based from home, with attendance at evening meetings a couple of nights each week, when my husband was home to look after her. I'm now semi retired and reduced my hours when I took my local government pension five years ago. Now that I've got to state pension age I've reduced my hours again and will retire altogether in a couple more years.

Midge 36 hours is full time in most companies.

Always worked full-time, can’t afford not to.

ETA: although I am unpaid carer outside of work to a disabled family member, so I work compressed hours (full-time hours over fewer days) to have some time off in the week with them for things that can’t be done at the weekend.

before DS went to school, both DH and I worked part time (4 days a week each) so we got to spend some time alone with him.

ive went back full time…. COL.. and I earn twice what DH does.

DH works term time only which is great

Full time compressed hours, so 8-6 four days per week.

We needed the full time wage, but I wanted one extra day a week with my son.

When I get my next payrise my husband will go part time and it will make our lives significantly easier.

37.5 hours a week for me. 1,because I need the ££ and 2, because I need routine otherwise my anxiety rears it's ugly head.