To stay at 0.6?

[Cheseandpickle]

Has anyone been 0.6 for a long time? I feel like when the kids were small, I had justification, but now they are in KS2, I don't really have that. I've been 0.6 for nearly 8 years - I'm a secondary teacher in a core subject. I have thought about increasing to 0.8, but for various reasons (or excuses) haven't gone ahead with it. Has anyone else been on 0.6 for a long time, and can anyone tell me their experiences of 0.8? Thank you.

I'm 0.8
I have been since DC were born 14 years ago
It works for me- I get a day to turn things around at home, laundry life admin etc plus a reduced workload but still feel I make a decent contribution at home and at work
I still have a cleaner as I can't do everything and feel I can justify this as I'm only really gaining 6 hours on my day off- which I can use for other household admin- going to my DC school for assemblies, dentist opticians etc-
I'm very involved at work but having that at home day feels more balanced
I could , in theory drop to 0.6 but 0.8 works for now
I can't see me going back to FT
Only 2 days off at the weekend seems tight for a busy household.

If you go 0.8 you might as well be full time.
0.6 is similar hours to a regular full time job in term time.
If you can afford it I'd keep the balance

I've been 0.6 for about 7 years. Did a term at 0.8 and really felt like I could have just done the whole week.
I definitely had more of a handle on my class and the comings and goings (I'm primary and was a job share). There are certainly lots of pros for extending your hours.

I'm going full time in September for the first time in 9 years. Eldest will be yr 4, youngest will be yr 1. Decision was made for financial purposes for the family.

There are times I think it will be fantastic and times I am absolutely bricking it.

My partner teacher is .8 and she may as well be full time ! She has to do all of the planning and report writing, all if the data drops and assessments, all parents evenings on her own - a HLTA covers on a Friday. The HLTA doesn't do any planning and her lessons are reading, PSHE, music, art and PE (all planned and resourced by the teacher and left ready on the Thursday evening) so no 'heavy load' stuff or marking - it's quite unfair and my colleague is shattered! This wasn't what she had envisioned when she requested the .8 hours at the start of this year. She's going down to .6 from September and they've employed another teacher to do a job share so the split will be much fairer!

I have done 0.6 and spent 2 days thinking about work and waiting for the handover from my job share so I've upped to 0.8. I'm more in control. Yes I'm in an extra day but I get paid to think about work on that 4th day rather than sit at home worrying. I have full ppa so plan for the 5th day

I have been 0.6 since returning from mat leave after dd1 was born and she is nearly 15!!! First in secondary and then in primary.

Dd2 is starting Y7 in September and I keep thinking I should increase my days to 0.8, but I really don't want to as I have a perfect work/life balance as it is 🤔

I would say stay as you are, as long as you are happy and can afford it. Don't just do what you think is expected of you! Any negative comments from people, not that that is very common thankfully, is usually because they are jealous!

It's really hard and mum guilt plays a massive part but I used to think about work on my days off so might as well get paid for it