Jobs with reliable 9 to 5 hours and good work-life balance?

[Corporatejobs]

Does anyone have a 9-5 job and good work life balance? Ie most of the time they’re able to log off at 5 and not think about work or do any work until the next day.

If so, please tell me your job and what kind of place you work

I’m in a corporate job and exhausted from the endless long hours and having no life. I want to make a change.

AHP/ team leader in an NHS acute hospital. I work part time so am flexible to an extent about it but hold boundaries re my work life balance and have always been supported to do so by management. I imagine the pay is a lot poorer than yours though, so that's the pay off.

Ooh can you say more -what kind of role /skills needed?

I work in a very specific area of fundraising, accessing funds from charitable sources like the National Lottery. You need to be good at writing and filling in extremely detailed forms!

Postie

Thanks for the reply :)

I work in a learning & development role in a large corporate. While I would say there are points during the year that I have to put in some extra hours, the majority of days I work 9.30-5.30 and I don’t work at the weekends. I’m paid a decent wage but not rolling in it - balance works for me.

I wonder if it's more about the ability to implement personal boundaries.

I have a dog, who knows exactly what time I finish work and expects a walk. I just switch off the laptop and go for a walk. I don't then look at emails until the next day. Similarly, I bet people who have to collect children are equally boundaried at switching off the laptop at the end of the day.

I am in a senior role and will also gently tell my junior staff off if they send emails outside of working hours, unless they have made use of flexitime for some reason. I did have too much work to fit in within my part time hours, so made the case for a very small increase in hours, which was successful, so it's fine now. I strongly believe that I will not work for free in my own time and told everyone quite clearly, that if there aren't enough hours in the role, then not everything will get done.

I am a senior and specialist health professional in the NHS.

Admin . The trade off is poor pay though .

8:30 to 4:30 with an hour lunch. 15 minute commute on foot. Uni Admin. Completely low stress. Completely low pay.
I chose it for the low-stress (there's a teeny tiny bit to keep it interesting)after a turbulent decade. I accept the lower salary as the cost of peace and better mental and physical health, and there are some perks for staff.

As others have said Civil service or quango/arms length government body. Salary is lower than private but you can work 9-5, mostly/entirely from home.
DH works as a Project Mgr for an arms length company. 9-5 (or rather 8-4), goes to site 1 day/week otherwise wfh. Travel costs to site are covered so he has no commuting costs. Has option to work compressed hours 4 days/week (8-6) if wanted. He’s on just over 50k/yr.