Why do people work part time ? I've never understood it...

[mozhe]

I never have, but lots of colleagues in NHS did....you end up doing 3/4 of the work for 1/2 the salary, and get passed over in the promotion stakes...And have you noticed that it's nearly always women who do this ? Why ? I actively discourage junior staff from doing this but lots seem to....

Can I just PMSL over and over and over @ Xenia citing herself as an example of busy f/t working mothers with large families NOT having time to post on the internet.

Zenia and Mozhe are a wind up, right?

They don't actually exist do they????

I dont know whether to laugh or cry right now.

What an entertaining thread!

sorry, X not Z

I've pointed this out before - regards Xenia anyway - so much for working full time if she is on this most days doing numerous time consuming postings.

I guess she has the last laugh though if she is at work and therefore getting £xxx per hour for doing so!

Xenia, my question was directed at Mozhe not you. I am very aware of your views thanks.

I am about to got back to work full time after a year off but I DO UNDERSTAND WHY SOME WOMEN DECIDE TO WORK ONLY PART TIME!

I won't in my weirdest dreams ever dismiss, make feel small and patronise other mothers that decide to work part time as I wasn't brought up by my parents to treat other people like you both do!

Thanks very much and godnight!

oops, goodnight!

They only feel patronised because they have issues about their decision to stay home. If you know what you're doing is right why would w working mother or stay at home mother be bothered about what anyone else says? It should be water off a duck's back.

If you truly believe that, Xenia, it begs the question...why do you bother contributing to a post on part time workers? You are obviously so smugly happy with your own full time working lifestyle, why would you want to bother yourself with us poor, misguided fools and our working patterns?

And I might I just add, if you had an ounce of sisterly solidarity you would realise that many many mothers - no matter what their working patterns are - DO indeed have 'issues', worries, doubts, fears, guilt etc surrounding their work-life balance. It's great that you don't. I'm so pleased for you.

I love my work life balance.
I love my job and I love my family.
I Do both very well and gain from it.
Medicine gains from having me still in it and my family gains from seeing me loads.
I get more money that not working and not as much as if I worked full time.
Society gains from it.
I occasionally worry, like all people I think, but I am one of the happiest people I know
PART-TIME WORK IS GREAT

DarrellRivers - what a nice post i agree

i also work NHS clinical specialist and enjoy working and baby at nursery

well ive only skimmed the thread but i can tell you why I personally work part time:

im a single mum with two kids. i used to work full time for most of ds's early years and i know how tired that made me, even though he was a very easy child.

i dont get any help. when i come back from work my day starts again. i have to keep my house clean, get everything done, still find time for the kids and for myself. there arent really enough hours in the day for me. then there's the garden and DIY too.

Working part time means if a child is ill i can just swap a day and not lose pay or have to use holiday. the same if i have a doctors appointment, or need some repairs done.

i also cant drive and cant afford to learn, for me to work full time it would be school run first and so staying in the office well after everyone else, even with just a half hour dinner break. then it would take me an hour to get home by bus, not in enough time to pick dd up from nursery and no-one to look after her in that time.

so at the moment its not possible...and even if it was, i've worked it out and for all the extra stress, less time with the kids and no doubt a filthy house i would gain an extra £20 a week.

just not worth it.

Xenia"I think it's useful we all see other people's points of view. I also think a lot of part time workers just don't often come into contact with full time working mothers like mozhe and I who have 5 children (and I think she's expecting a 6th) probably because most women like us are too busy to post on the internet" Oh dear Xenia you do make me laugh, i see your name on these posts more than anyone else, you must be here ALL DAY!!!!!! most women like you, just not you lmao you do brighten my day so

Zenia and Mozhe do f*k all work. Thay also do F*k all childcare. They are both too busy doing long contentious posts on Mumsnett.

xenia why do you assume that people have issues about staying at home. I had ds1, I always intended to go back to work, then, when he was 3 weeks old I remember sitting upstairs with him in bed with me and realising there was no way I could leave him, absolutely no way. We talked about it (dh and I that is) and decided that we could afford for me to stay at home (dh was pleased as he didn't want ds1 left wih non family member either), and so the decision was made. Huge weight off shoulders, and what followed was the happiest 18 months of my life. No issues here at all. And I will always be pleased I followed by emotions on that one.

zenia - aahheeemmmm i think your pants are on fire about u being too busy to post...u have numerous posts which always look forward to reading..but you are a prolific poster

You know you are

mozhe you are generalising too much. Maybe people with similar job/wage as you get raw deal, but i work p/t for pocket money really. F/t would be a joke - all that effort and not seeing family to spend approx half the money on childcare. Look outside the bubble of 'your world' and it is fairly obvious why people work part time. If my dh worked p/t and me f/t that would be ridiculous - he can't bf and my wages are crap (wasted education and work for nhs)

I do enjoy posting on MN....but you'll probably hear a lot less from me when I'm back in harness for the good old NHS...Now i'm off to think up a really good thread title.

eeeerrrrrrr just as long as you are not organising the SPr rotations in your spare time

Don't even go there Scottishmummy ! Glad to be out of that for the moment...

LOL the shortlisting debacle

im too scared now to tell you my specialty
But ;lots of chlorpromazine and acuphase LOL and thats just the staff

Yeah that whole thing has well and truly been f----d up..would lol if it wasn't so tragic...are you psychiatrist too ?

I wish I had the wherewithal to never work outside the home again, actually.

Thanks, Dad, for the stirling education. Haahahaa.

I would love to have had my mother's life. She appreciated every minute of it.

Government has really F@@@@D up junior docs training.Travesty.Which speciaism do you work within,Mohze?(If you do not mind answering a crap pt mum )

Specialism,even