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

It’s groups of five, so each person paying per hour adds up, not a huge amount by any means, but not bad

Haha I did half wonder this but nothing yet unfortunately 🤣

Well I reckon I would in that I could cope with it. I think. But I'm not currently able to work at all. But that type of thing with only two hour shifts would possibly be a stepping stone to get someone like me back into work, leading to more longer hours if coped?

But as a regular person who is capable of working ft I'd not think it worth the effort and it wouldn't pay enough. I'd rather do all those hours over one or two days if I was not disabled.

I did similar hours when our daughters were little. My husband worked full time. I was a Secondary school teacher but took a partime role in adult education to maintain my skills/familiarity with new syllabus requirements etc. The money was useful. Hours fitted around everyone. It made my return to an Secondary school teaching role easy when the children were at Secondary school themselves. I assume you have thought of school holidays.

you said you do all school pick ups so on the two days you work 1-3pm you’re getting your child and spending time with them for day 2 hours then out to work for 2 hours. Then one night it’s 1.5 hours out.

so 3 days a week you’re spending 1.5-2 hours out in the evening and the other 2 days they aren’t affected.

if you worked FT (for similar money) you might end up still being out for some hours during the evenings as you might want to fit in Pilates, dog walks, errands and you might need that time to yourself after working all day then straight home to children.

look at it from the child’s pov, 5 hours out of 25 if they’re home from school/bedtime is 3-8pm. It doesn’t seem too drastic and the benefits outweigh the negatives imo as you’re more likely fully engaged with the child during this time as you’ve had time to do everything else. I know how hard it is to juggle work from home alongside caregiving, making dinner, doing the housework, thinking when you’ll fit a dog walks in. It’s all rushed

I wouldn’t like the spilt shift, would struggle to switch off in the gap and not much time to do anything (or more likely would spend the gap sorting primary school child out, making dinner etc) I’d rather work the hours as a block 1-5 or 5-9 but assume this isn’t possible