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For the past few months I have been "trying out" a part-time schedule with my job. It has taken no less than blood, sweat, tears, and a whole lot of cajoling to make this work and make it permanent, but my boss *finally* approved it on Friday. I feel slightly superstitious about announcing this development because the final paper work hasn't been processed approved by the State yet. Nonetheless, I am SOOOO excited to make this schedule permanent. My life has much more balance; part-time seems to be the best fit for me. Realistically, the paycut is going to hurt, but I don't even care. I am not going to get this time of my life back.
I have read so much on the topic of working/staying at home/part-time that I just had to make a final decision about what I really wanted and how to make it work. The critics of part-time schedules will tell you that part-timers become marginalized and do more than their respective share of work at home. With DH's schedule I was doing the lion's share of domestic duties anyway, so this wasn't a huge factor in our lives. As far as marginalization goes, I'll just join the ranks of most working moms of small children. I have plenty of working decades to turn that around.
Nonetheless, neither working full time nor staying at home really suited me either. Getting approved for a part-time schedule in a full-time world wasn't as easy as the experts say it is. But as they say, you don't get anything unless you ask for it, so I had to zealously advocate for this. It was the first time in my professional life that I really pushed for something, so it felt pretty uncomfortable. But it was worth it.
Everybody keep your fingers crossed that all of this goes through and my new schedule becomes permanent.
Kelly
I have read so much on the topic of working/staying at home/part-time that I just had to make a final decision about what I really wanted and how to make it work. The critics of part-time schedules will tell you that part-timers become marginalized and do more than their respective share of work at home. With DH's schedule I was doing the lion's share of domestic duties anyway, so this wasn't a huge factor in our lives. As far as marginalization goes, I'll just join the ranks of most working moms of small children. I have plenty of working decades to turn that around.
Nonetheless, neither working full time nor staying at home really suited me either. Getting approved for a part-time schedule in a full-time world wasn't as easy as the experts say it is. But as they say, you don't get anything unless you ask for it, so I had to zealously advocate for this. It was the first time in my professional life that I really pushed for something, so it felt pretty uncomfortable. But it was worth it.
Everybody keep your fingers crossed that all of this goes through and my new schedule becomes permanent.
Kelly
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