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....

oh this isn't an attempt to stimulate debate it's just mozhe feeling superior to people who put things other than their careers first (what a strange idea to have things more important than work going on).

I think whenever surveyed the majority of mothers say that their ideal would be to work part time. So rather than encouraging people (especially mothers) to only work full time, it might be more helpful to encourage your institution (the NHS FGS it should be flexible) to allow people to work part time hours at a fair rate of pay. Ridiculous that part timers ending up doing 3/4 work for 1/2 the pay. It's THAT that should be challenged, not people's wsh for a life outside work.

mozhe - have your views about work/life balance not changed at all since having children? Do you never want to spend less time at work and more time doing something else?

Glad I'm not one of your junior staff! I've just gone part-time (in the NHS)after working full-time with a young child for past two and a half years. I hold a senior nursing post. I do not believe that the reduced hours (30) will affect my promotion prospects at all. Thankfully, my boss (male)is more understanding than you are.

I don't feel at all stirred up by it. TBH Mozhe is in the kind of big bucks job where she can buy in all the services she needs. It is not like doing a 40 hour week in Asda for the minimum wage, whereby with 5/6 children you would be nowhere near covering your childcare costs and then still having to do your own cooking/shopping/cleaning/laundry.

I get paid the same hourly rate as I would working full time,

I prioritise so I don't over work myself and I stand my ground when asked to do too much,

I have been promoted (well given a different job with slightly better pay and hours)

and

I get to laze about at home for the rest of the week doing whatever I want with DS and laughing at all the full timers having to work.

We do however make sacrafices for not bringing in a full time wage, but such is life.

my point being that many mothers working full time are doing so because they have no choice - many would prefer part time work. Ways to make that possible should be encouraged.

i dont wipe snot
i drift elegantyl around

,snigger>

The most wonderful paediatrician I've come across in the years we've been involved with them is part time, and has young children. I rather hope she doesn't get passed over for promotion because she's very good at her job, and has an excellent bedside manner. Much better than any of the full timers more senior to her that I've come across.

So Mohze's role model is Nicola Horlicks

OMG Xenia hasn't been on this thread yet!

Cause I can make $700 per day and work 3 days per week and get to have some adult conversations and not feel bad spending some money on myself.

I love not being on the corporate ladder too as I don't get so caught up in all the bitchiness and office politics.

Sometime ago Mozhe wrote:

"I have 18 months between DS1 and DS2,then 12 months between him and DS3 and then 2.5 years with DDsx2 aged now 5 months. It means they are all growing up together.I hope to start trying for no6 this year and then call it a day...i think. "

Oh my god, you have 6 kids and you work full time .... now i truly belive you are trying to wind us up!

yes but her kids arent at shcool eyt or old enoguh to mona at her nad make her feel guilty
har har
smug fest

I don't get this argument about only working part time because of childcare not making it worthwhile. Of course, if you work evenings/weekends etc, and the other parent can look after the children, yes that makes sense. But if you are in an office job, it stands to reason that the more you work the more you have childcare.

Eg say I work 3 days a week and earn £1200/month of which I spend half (£600) on childcare, I end up with £600. But if I work 5 days a week and earn £2000/month, I spend £1000 on childcare and end up with £1000. But less time to fit in all the other aspects of my life.

How much of Mohze's full time working has actually been at home on maternity leave in the last few years

lol
an nto trying to go to 6 sports days
6 parents evenings
6 nativities

har har a

My dp worked p-t for around 8 years - he did it becuase he wanted to and we could afford it, he's now gone fulltime because he wants to - it isn't just women.....

I think mozhe's no 6 is due soon. She was trying to work out her maternity leave on another thread.

bet her cooleahues are pissign htemsleves behind her bavk
" waht ANOTHER??"

And Camm - not that much - she was planning on going back when baby no 6 was 2 weeks old.

oh god i tihink her and xneia shoudl enter into a civil partnership

Just realised that Moxhe hasnt replied to back up her argument.
Oh yes, she must be at work!

Then I feel genuinely sorry for her, I can't imagine how ghastly it would be to be away from a 2 week old baby.

ignore ignore ignore

go to your p/t job rebel.
go to your p/t job rebel.
go to your p/t job rebel.