Your 9-2 job

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I’ve been made redundant after working 40+ hours a week FT constantly on edge from workloads and things like with evening/weekend messages from the CEO. The ship has started sinking so he can’t afford to keep me on and has made me redundant.

I’ve been coasting along and know this is the kick I probably needed to find a happier life with a better balance.

I’m hoping you can inspire me - does anyone work 4 days per week say 9-2? (School times) - if yes, what do you do?

NC as previous posts could be outing and I’ve been made redundant which hasn’t been announced yet. Shamelessly posting here for traffic.

I work in the voluntary sector and at our organisation we are very flexible over hours and days, as long as it’s consistent, we also have others who prefer to work as and when - and that can work for both parties

I work 9.30-3 with a half hour for lunch, remotely, for a university, managing data.

I work 9-3 Monday to Friday, term time only. I'm a learning support assistant in a primary school.

The pay is shit - £16700 a year which equates to around £1300 a month before tax and not much more than minimum wage.

The perks are that it's very rewarding, the children are the best part of the job. You also get the school holidays off as well as evenings and weekends so child are costs are next to nothing. The days get busy but you don't bring additional work home with you to complete, when you're finished for the day you are finished.

There's an agency called ten to two you can try they have lots of different levels if jobs

I work 9-3 4 days a week.

It’s a weirdly specific role so again quite outing but I work for an organisation similar to a professional membership body. My role is quite varied but would fall under the broad title of ‘communications’ I guess - some marketing, some PR, research and lots of writing (case studies, white papers, sector updates etc).

I was doing the writing for them as a freelancer and was then offered a permanent role and asked what hours would suit. It’s changed a few times and they are very flexible. There are times when I need to do more though, I worked till 10 this evening for example, once DC was in bed.

(I always cringe slightly mentioning writing for a job on here as am aware that my posts are probably littered with errors - the way I post on MN is not reflective of the way I write professionally!)

hi there i’m sorry to hear you’ve been made redundant. I’m currently delivering parcels a few hours each day. Not the best money but it gets me out the house and my steps per day have been fab! It’s flexible which is the main thing for me. i work average 3-4 hours per day over 5-6 days and earn around £1000 per month. i can start any time between 8.30- 11am. it’s double time on a sunday that’s why i’ll work a few hours then sometimes.

I work school-friendly hours in administration at a university. I’m not student-facing so was more or less able to choose my hours - I work 50% over 3 days.

I’ve just advertised a 25hrs a week, flexible working pattern (so could be 9-2), university administrator role.
Not great pay, circa £26k full time but good benefits. Hybrid available.

I do 8.35-1.35 x 3 days a week term time as a TA. I absolutely love it and rarely have childcare costs.

It’s very poorly paid but given that I have four DC I would need to earn over £45K to be better off once tax/Nat insurance and childcare (esp holiday clubs) were taken into account.

These aren't my hours but I am a lecturer and have found universities generally can offer quite a bit of flexibility especially with part time roles.

Even in my current role, when I'm not actually timetabled to teach I can either work from home or have flexible start/finish times. It would be very easy, say, to drop kids off at school without needing to use a breakfast club, be there to pick up but mark or plan in the evening after school.

There are lots of roles...some of the food outlets are only 9-2 or 9-3, there's cleaning, HR, admin, reception, gym reception, PAs, wellbeing advisers, accomodation officers and flexible working is always sold as a key part of the job and 30% wfh where possible. We also get really good paid holidays.

I’m just reading through your posts but just jumping back in to say thank you for posting so far - a few of these really sound like something I’d enjoy or have given me new ideas. I feel hopeful for the first time in a long time!

Cleaner 🤓

@Mumosa Who do you deliver for?
OP like others here I’m a TA, I love my job but earn pennies so would quite like to pick up some weekend work.

I work 9-2 in an Estate Agents

My last job was telephone interviewer. Flexible hours, working from home so I generally worked 9-3, 3 days a week.

Finance Manager. Fully flexible part time hours from home. £50k full time salary.

Evri

Self employed gardener

I laughed when reading this as I do/was doing similar and then I post on MN and see all my typos & grammatical errors!

I was considering making the freelance leap but it feels a bit scary! Thank you though - your role sounds very similar to my experience and it’s great to know that jobs like this exist

My cleaner earns a decent wage and works round her childcare. She's good so charges accordingly. Hard work but she dictates her hours..

Thanks so much, I never would have considered this thinking there would be no flexibility (I’ve already been googling off the back of your comment!)

Parish Clerk (and I run our local community centre as part of that). I work 20 hours a week, I pick my hours bar one evening meeting per month. Paid £19.10 an hour, not a qualified clerk (should rise to £20.10 when I qualify!) With a few years experience after qualification you can look at salaries of £50-£75k for Town Clerk roles as progression.

I work in the charity sector. 4 days a week, flexitime, hybrid, but mostly from home. Being the charity sector, the pay is obviously not amazing, but it's not the worst, and combined with the good holiday allowance and flexibility (meaning I save on childcare costs), I really can't grumble!

Can I ask, do you need SQL knowledge for this? (hoping I’ve got the right one there!) @CrispyFries

My friend does these sort of hours at citizens advice.