Part Time Salary Vs Pro Rated Full Time Salary

[TreadmillMom]

Prior to having DS2 I worked full time.
After a 6 month maternity leave I requested part time working which was rejected as my employer felt my role demanded a full time presence however I was offered a new role working 3 days a week, which was great.
Initially I was very pleased and excited, another string to my bow as it were, however 10 months later I am so bored, there is stuff to do but it is so monotonous and not at all mentally stimulating. I feel financially trapped.
My full time salary was pro rated I know I am getting a great deal for the hours I work, I have tried to look for another job not necessarily the same industry but another part time role and I would be looking at a 50% or more reduction in salary if I changed to an advertised part time job.
My husband says I am lucky and who cares about the job, think of the money and though he has a point I feel I am wasting away.
What do you think? Any suggestions about how I can make a financially viable move?

Is there anything you can add to your current role to make it less tedious - eg help out on your previous job role/anything your current boss does you could take over - I find people tend not to say 'oh no, don't take on any more work - then after a bit once you do that indispensibly, start delegating more mundanme tasks down (assumes a hierachy that may not be in place...)
Have you talked to your boss about how you're feeling - if they know you're understretched they may well be able to help...
I'm a big believer in enjoying work (& lucky enough to be able to do it), don't think I could do 3 days a week of boredom....

Reread this & suspect I have done nothing other than suggest stuff you will obviously have thought of - sorry if that was all a bit patronising

I am in just the same boat, and it is very tedious being part time and sidelined, but also very easy to chill out and concentrate on other things in life.

I, like you, am now contemplating going full time and getting a proper, challenging job, just because I am so bored. The other way of looking at it is that you have got a whole lifetime of working, so what is the harm in taking easy street for a few years.

It depends whether you truly hate what you are doing or whether it is just not enough. The one thing I wouldn't do is take a lower paid part time job - you might find that is much much worse.

Good luck whatever you decide.

Does your employer offer compressed hours? i.e. you do the same hours but compress them into 4 days say. So then you'd get ft pay for 4 days (albeit ft hours)

WWW - do you work compressed hours? How do you find it?

Blackduck, no but I really, really want to and was about to apply but my boss is moving jobs so I need to see how land lies with the new boss before applying. Standard week is only 35 hrs where I work so I could EASILY fit it into 4 days doing 8.30 - 6pm or something, which I do often enough anyway.

AND I'd save around £160 (of net pay so more gross) on childcare a month. But like I said, I need to wait really.

WWW - its a very tempting idea! - I was actually thinking of proposing I cut my hours to gain a day a week free - now I'm wondering about doing it this way!

Well exactly, I really want a day a week with dd and ds (he's at school but it would mean being able to pick him up) but I don't want to drop to pt salary.

I won't accept such a drastic drop in salary to move - but that is just me. Will coast in the same position until I feel ready to gear up to fulltime, if I want the stimulation. Even if you move, there is no guarantee the part time job is not going to brainwasting as well (they tend to be) and then you would have been stuck with a lower salary.