Would you like these work hours?

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Two days per week-1 pm-3 pm & 5.15-7.15 pm

One day per week-6 pm-7.30 pm

One day per week-11 am-1 pm-working from home

One child at Primary school

I think you’ve posted about this before and how your husband doesn’t like it because he … has to do some parenting of his own child and so moans. Despite you earning your Ft equivalent in these hours.

I work Ft and with commute only get home about 7 on 3 days a week. So to me this sounds fine, you’re home all evening 4 days a week, you get to do school pick ups. Sure if you could tweak hours you would but recollection is you can’t.

I wouldn’t like those hours . That’s 5 days a week where you have a commitment but working lees than 12 hours overall .

When mine were small I was able to flex my hours (and work from home) and regularly worked 8pm-10pm which meant I could reduce my working hours during the day. I also worked on Saturdays. Was super lucky: but losing early evening is hard when your kids are small, especially if it's nearly every day.

Would I like it? No, hideous hours. Tonnes of commitment for so few hours of work. But sometimes you have to take what you can get and plenty of families need to work round each other to save on childcare. If it works for you, that's all that matters.

2 days a week 3 pm finish means I can't do pick up.
3 evenings a week means not being able to do some of our after school clubs / missing bedtime and tea time. I'd also need childcare on those 3 night until 6

So no

It sounds more like an employer wondering if there's likely to be any candidates interested than someone actually working those hours. Maybe I'm cynical.

Suspect it is private tutoring or music lessons as oppossed to ft teaching but honestly who knows.

I agree @AshHeart . If this is the case they can just advertise and see if they get any takers.

Is it "about the same" money because you don't have to pay childcare that you otherwise would if you did 9-5 every day? Or do you actually earn a full-time wage for working those part-time hours?

It wouldn't work for me because those 2 days early evenings would be time missed with young kids getting dinner, supervising homework etc and my DH wouldn't be there to cover that.

If it is the same money because I'm not paying childcare I'd still be down overall because of (potential) lack of career progression and pension.

I'd rather work school hours or say 3 days and use wrap-around care I think if not working FT was an option financially.

How much pension savings can you make working these hours?!

It doesn't matter whether others would work those hours, what matters is do you want to work those hours? Most seem to be school hours so child care would be low cost unless you have kids not in schools yet, presumably husband could parent for the evening shifts

Why would you be unreasonable op? You're happy, your kid is taken care of, your partner is happy.

I don't understand what yo u want from this?

To brag you work a few hours for a full time wage and everyone else is wage slave?
Has someone criticised you?
Are you looking to recruit other parents?

No because the hours are incredibly restrictive for such little hours (and assuming little pay!) worked.

Does it matter?

I work three evenings a week which some people on here would hate but it’s amazing for us. We don’t need any wraparound care, we can cover school holidays entirely ourselves without any childcare so we only ever take annual leave to spend time together, not for childcare reasons, I wfh so still get to be part of family life in evenings anyway plus I get to be at home during day for youngest DC and make every single school event. But that’s just our circumstances, for others maybe it wouldn’t work at all 🤷‍♀️

It all depends on what the work is and what the pay is.

Another thing to take into consideration is this an employed position of self employed? So you get (for example) 30k a year employed full time with all the benefits like holiday and sick pay and pension vs 30k a year for part time hours but no pension or sick or holiday pay etc. You need to weigh that up as well.

So I used to do sort of similar hours teaching a niche exercise class and I'd imagine a lot of people teaching craft classes do too. My hourly was high as I worked for myself, would have been about 1/4 of that if I worked for a gym on their timetable. End of the day I had to work when there was demand for the service. I did it for about 5 years but ultimately felt like I was missing out on too much with my kids once they were full time in school and I'd rather work more hours when they were already elsewhere than fewer hours but miss the time they wanted to tell me about their day, play games, watch a film, go on a bike ride after tea. I don't regret my decision to work more but also see them more, if I didn't have kids the hours wouldn't bother me.

You get to do every drop off and pick up with time after pick up for a chat, snack etc before DH takes over and you leave and you’ll be back in time for a bedtime story (and maybe more depending on bedtime) and sounds like term time only.

It’s a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and reliant on your DH being home in time and fully on-board with working all day and then doing tea, homework and bedtime. Obviously he should be Ok with finishing work and then parenting his own child, like millions of other parents, but could easily sabotage this if he’s not.

Thats the crux really - not the hours or pay - is he on-board or likely to be a dick about it?

If I wanted part time?

No, I would hate that.

However, I have people who work for me who prefer the afternoon/evening shifts, so it does seem to suit some people.

Come on OP, whats the job please??

Yes I would love those hours for a full time salary especially as I'm a lone parent. Unfortunately I have to work 12 hour shifts 3-4 times per week to get my full time pay.

Is it only fans ? Or something in the sex industry? Is that why you won’t say lol

There should be a setting on Mumsnet where you get a notification only when the OP answers the question. I can't keep refreshing 😂

Ok so these are the hours you want childcare for?

No, the 2 hour 'break' in between is rubbish. By the time a person travels back to their home they wouldn't have long before they had to go back to work.

You'd be better off employing from 1-7.15 and getting them to do other things while you're out with your child, ie ironing, light housework.

Or they have to answer within 3 requests otherwise the post gets taken down!