What hours do you work?

[Chipstick]

I currently work Monday, Tuesday and Friday 830-430. My place of work is only 3 miles down the road so I leave at 8am and am home by 5.

I've been offered promotion which will involve changing location and my new base will be 20 miles away. I will need to leave at approx 730am and return home 530ish. Also, possibility of working an extra day but at my insistance will be 10-4 so I can drop dd at school.

I feel like the extra commute will make my working day seem so much longer (its actually only an extra hour) but I'm really umming and ahhing about it.

What days and hours do you work?

hi,

I work 8-5 mon - fri, (but this is a bank in the city though...)

hth

Monday/Tues 9.30 - 6
Weds 1.30 -10

however just asking to reduce from 24 to 20 and finish at 5.30 those three days when I return from maternity

Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday 9-7
Sunday 10-8

So 40 in total.

what term time work is mentioned here?

I work three days per week, with two daughters (1yo and 3.6yo) and the commute/times are as follows:

Get up at 6, get ready till 6.30am. Get the girls up at 6.30am, ready and dressed by 7am. Set off just after 7, drive for 30-40 mins with the girls on board.

Drop the girls off for breakfast at nursery at about 7.45am, start work at 8am.

The reason this is so early is that the traffic any later than 7am turns a journey of 45mins into 1 1/2 hours.

I leave work at 4.30pm, pick the girls up at 4.45pm and set off back before the main rush hour. Usually home by 5.30pm. Dinner for the girls followed by bathtime and bed by 7pm.

It is hard, no denying it.

I hate putting them through the journeys, and the very long day is stressful for them. I really have no choice but to do this - we need the money and I can't get a part time job nearer to home. The childcare is on-site and is tax-deductible. However, to work shorter hours would not suit my employer, and would also mean less money per day to offset the childcare costs.

I work 4 days a week term time, 9am - 3pm and 3 dayes a week school hols 9am - 5pm.

My work is a 20 minute walk away or 5 mim drive.

I work 9 to 5, 5 days a week, with an hours commute each way. It sucks.

Base is very very probably moving, closer to home [huge grin] and commute will be down to 40 minutes total which will seem like heaven!!!

Then I just need to wangle a 4 day week ( being realistic here!) and...

Usually I work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 0805 to 1700 hours (hours are flexible though) and work is 20 minutes drive from home (13 miles). I also drop off and pick up DTS from nursery which is en route to work. I leave home at 0725 hours and usually return between 1730-1800 hours depending on what time I leave work.

I'm also a NED for an NHS Trust so if I have a meeting, I swap my days so have to work Thursdays and this normally happens about twice a month.

I used to work Tues, Wed, Fri. Leave home at 6:30am and be home at7pm. DH did drop off at nursery/childminder. Note used to, after DS was born I couldn't face it anymore.

I do Mon 8-5.30 and Tues-Fri 8-12.45pm. Ds is at nursery on the mon, and thurs & fri mornings and then with dp's mum on the tues and wed morning. It means I've only reduced my hrs by 25% altho I am made to feel like I'm not there a lot sometimes. It works well for us as I get to spend most afternoons with ds. Plan is once ds and any other dc's we have are at full time school, I will change my hrs to fit in with their schools - that's the plan anyway!!

SSD- My term time work is as a TA.

My term time work is as a TA too, hopefully a HLTA soon, fingers crossed anyway.