do you work?

[SHIREENSMOM]

how many of you work, how many hours and what do you do, im beeing very nosey sorry

I work 4 days a week as a lecturer in a college. DH is a SAHD also, though he currently works on my day off as a medical scientist.

I work too. I am a secondary school teacher and work 3 days a week.

I drop DD off at nursery at 8am to start school at 8:30am. I then collect DD again between 3:45pm and 5pm, depending on meetings and things. I then get to spend that time until her bedtime with ehr before doing any more work.

After next September though I will be doing some supply teaching (leaving my current permanent job as very stressful and poor school). I am hoping to be able to get 3 days a week, on average. And will maybe also look at doing additional things like moderating and marking coursework/exams, tutoring, etc.

Oooh! A copper in a our midst. I do social science research, and definitely need another job (but policing wouldn't be it, either).

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I'm an accounting working in the technical department of a biggish firm. Hours vary a bit - but usually about 9-6ish. I work 4.5 days per week which gives me Friday afternoon off to pick the little ones up from nursery/school. Husband is also an accountant working in industry. We juggle a lot and have a nanny!!!!

that should say accountant not accounting!!

No, I'm feeling quite broken today, actually.
...Sorry... I have lost all ability to respond seriously.

Full time - large accountancy firm, currently on a secondment (read: my male department didn't know how to cope with women with child) where my hours are about 40 hours a week, supposed to return to mergers and acquisitions where hours are up to 120 hours a week (no joke). Thank god I'm pregnant again and will hopefully go on maternity before I have to go back to M&A !! Yippee

I clean 2/3 days a week

I dont
I lounge around in a negligee and fluffy mules, sipping wine adn geting my nails done.

And chasing the milkman/postman I hope coddy!!

I used to work in IT, but last year my company paid me loads of money not to come back. So now I do what Coddy does....

F/t as an assistant registrar in a large university. Contrary to poular belief we do not close down when the students aren't here! DD goes to school from 8-5 everyday and a childminder for the same period in the hols. Ideally I'd like a term-time only contract but I neeed to wait a while before suggesting it!

3 days a week from home. Self employed PR consulstant.

I work 3 days a week as an office manager for a Financial Software company in the city. Hours are 9:30 to 4:45. They are very good to me and I can work from home or swap days if I have childcare issues. I do take the odd phone call and also check emails on the two days I'm home.

hmb, thats why im asking i just wonder how people do it. i only have one dd and even though i work oart time it seems like im working full time sahm is a job too you just dont get paid

i wish we did get paid for it though

Investment bank - corporate finance dept, where hours are like Pollingfold's. However I changed my role after ds so now do more internal management/marketing etc rather than client work. Now work 8am to 6pm ish, but last to arrive and first to leave every day.

Going on maternity leave in about 6 weeks for the restand can't wait !

that's supposed to say 'rest of the year and can't wait !'

3 days in Univ Library IT dept. 9-5 2 days 8-4 one day. 2x wee boys do mixture of nursery/grannie/woman next door.

Am pg again and don't know whether I can juggle it all......plus getting p*d off with attitude of work where hardly any seniorish staff have young kids....

Full-time university lecturer. Have live-out nanny otherwise couldn't manage but insist on working only 9 to 5.

do you workers ever feel like "sod it!"?

F/T web developer here. Work from home 9-5. Would love to jack it in but can't afford to!

Oh yes coddy - every minute of every day sometimes!!

Wasn't there a movement called Wages for Housework in the 70s that made the same point about work at home being unpaid?
I'm a magazine editor, currently using up hols accumulated on mat. leave to do 4 days but F/T from April. Very unusally in this business you can work your hours here rather than staying late which is a godsend but am being made redundant in the summer so who knows?