What is a "Mom" job and how can I get one?

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and this is an ideal mom job. I have the same schedule as my children, and summers off. Sure, I have a lot of "homework", but so do my kids. I love my job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work for a non-profit 30hrs/week (basically just school hours), mostly from home. Pay is $50k, work is challenging and in my field, and I've been steadily advancing. It's great for work/life balance, but I wish I could find something that paid better.

I would love to be paid this much for those hours. I'm making 36k for 30 hours and I'm a pro with 15 years of experience, including at department head level. What do you do and for what type of NP are you doing it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work from home full-time with occasional travel and make $180k. So is mine a mom job or not?

Shut up, braggart. You know that's what we all dream of and none of us have, so NO, it's not a mom job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a mom job, if we can call it that (125k). My hours are 7:00 to 3:00, Spring break and Winter break off, all snow days off (I work for a school district so they are extremely considerate if kids are sick etc)). I would love the flexibility to work from home at least twice a week, but I am not complaining.

That's really good! 125K is really high. I can't imagine you being a teacher and leave by 3 or an administrator and leave by 3.
Are you a "specialist"?

I'm not the PP, but I'm a public school administrator, make $110k, and work 8-4 most days (probably 80% of the time). I get 4 weeks of paid time off, plus holidays and my district gives spring and winter break off to administrators without using leave. There is no work on weekends and sometimes I don't even look at email from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. It's pretty great.

So what exactly do you DO? Like, when you are at work, what does an average day look like for you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Outside of sales and call center jobs, what are y'all doing that you work from home full time?

Oh wait, this is DC, "government contractors".

NP here and I'll bite. I manage grants all over the country. I have one grant in DC and the rest are spread throughout the US, including Hawaii and Alaska. I'm the only one who works on these grants so there's no one in my office to meet with. Why can't I work from home?? I don't WAH full-time, but rather 80%.

another NP. I'm also at home full time, with some travel. I'm a senior-level lawyer working in-house at a company that recruited me specifically for my expertise, to manage a group within the legal department. It's not exactly a 'mom' job, but it is very flexible. I paid my dues in law firm jobs and another in-house role earlier in my career.

Another NP here. PT contractor in IT project development. I didn't used to be 100% remote, but we moved and my office was open to giving it a try and the arrangement has worked out well for both parties. I got to keep my job and a lot of flexibility, while they kept my expertise/knowledge, and for less than what they would have to pay someone else.

[Anonymous]

I work full-time for a tech company. I'm a web developer and work from home. DD goes to daycare currently, but won't need before/after care. Plus my company is super awesome with snow days and what not.

[Anonymous]

I have a mom job.
I telecommute full time and technically am paid for 40 hours a week but never work more than 9-3. I make $95K.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach yoga. Help others, bring in some income (about 20k/year, which we didn't need so is used for more extravagant vacations and extra community giving) and get to do something I love while my kids are in school. Fun mom job.

What does that come out to, $12,000 a year after taxes?

Haven't broken it out. Maybe? That's 12k that we wouldn't have had though - and I get to volunteer in our women's prison system, kids schools, DV shelter etc. I suppose I could sit on my ass and do nothing but I like this and it betters my community. It's a job and I'm a mom - was there a minimum to post here that I wasn't aware of?

This is not a job.

good grief

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a mom job.
I telecommute full time and technically am paid for 40 hours a week but never work more than 9-3. I make $95K.

I work in education - 10 months, a little over $100K.

hours 8-3:30
I take work home, but we're rebranding, and I love the work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work from home full-time with occasional travel and make $180k. So is mine a mom job or not?

Shut up, braggart. You know that's what we all dream of and none of us have, so NO, it's not a mom job.

No need to be so rude. I asked because people were defining a mom job as one where the employee telecommutes full-time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I work from home full-time with occasional travel and make $180k. So is mine a mom job or not?

Shut up, braggart. You know that's what we all dream of and none of us have, so NO, it's not a mom job.

No need to be so rude. I asked because people were defining a mom job as one where the employee telecommutes full-time.

I believe PP reacted that way since you ended it after a high salary working from home- "So is mine a mom job or not?" you really don't sound like a humble nice person (or just in tune with people). Perhaps working from home on your own is the best setting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach yoga. Help others, bring in some income (about 20k/year, which we didn't need so is used for more extravagant vacations and extra community giving) and get to do something I love while my kids are in school. Fun mom job.

What does that come out to, $12,000 a year after taxes?

Haven't broken it out. Maybe? That's 12k that we wouldn't have had though - and I get to volunteer in our women's prison system, kids schools, DV shelter etc. I suppose I could sit on my ass and do nothing but I like this and it betters my community. It's a job and I'm a mom - was there a minimum to post here that I wasn't aware of?

This is not a job.

good grief

Yes it is. It's not a job that can support a whole family around here, but it IS a job. Maybe you need to get a little yoga in your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach yoga. Help others, bring in some income (about 20k/year, which we didn't need so is used for more extravagant vacations and extra community giving) and get to do something I love while my kids are in school. Fun mom job.

What does that come out to, $12,000 a year after taxes?

Haven't broken it out. Maybe? That's 12k that we wouldn't have had though - and I get to volunteer in our women's prison system, kids schools, DV shelter etc. I suppose I could sit on my ass and do nothing but I like this and it betters my community. It's a job and I'm a mom - was there a minimum to post here that I wasn't aware of?

This is not a job.

good grief

Tell that to all of the minimum wage workers who serve you, asshole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work from home full-time with occasional travel and make $180k. So is mine a mom job or not?

Shut up, braggart. You know that's what we all dream of and none of us have, so NO, it's not a mom job.

No need to be so rude. I asked because people were defining a mom job as one where the employee telecommutes full-time.

I believe PP reacted that way since you ended it after a high salary working from home- "So is mine a mom job or not?" you really don't sound like a humble nice person (or just in tune with people). Perhaps working from home on your own is the best setting?

I'm actually quite a nice and humble person, and I worked in an office for 20 years before I started telecommuting, so there's no need to imply that I don't work well with others. My point was that you don't have to have a 'mom job' to telecommute full time. Others posted similarly with salaries close to mine after me as well. I find the term 'mom job' pretty demeaning, as if people who work from home full time or have a flexible schedule must be nothing more than wanna-be SAHMs who couldn't be breadwinners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a mom job, if we can call it that (125k). My hours are 7:00 to 3:00, Spring break and Winter break off, all snow days off (I work for a school district so they are extremely considerate if kids are sick etc)). I would love the flexibility to work from home at least twice a week, but I am not complaining.

That's really good! 125K is really high. I can't imagine you being a teacher and leave by 3 or an administrator and leave by 3.
Are you a "specialist"?

I'm not the PP, but I'm a public school administrator, make $110k, and work 8-4 most days (probably 80% of the time). I get 4 weeks of paid time off, plus holidays and my district gives spring and winter break off to administrators without using leave. There is no work on weekends and sometimes I don't even look at email from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. It's pretty great.

So what exactly do you DO? Like, when you are at work, what does an average day look like for you?

I run my ass off the entire time I'm there. I meet with staff or parents starting about five minutes after I walk in the door. While students are in the building I'm in classrooms, observing and providing feedback to teachers or helping out students who look like they're struggling. I have about 8-10 students who I check in on multiple times throughout the day at any given time...because they have emotional difficulties or because I know something is going on at home and they are in need of a little extra TLC. I know the name of every child in the school and a little about their lives outside of school. There are probably 30-40 "problems" brought to me each day to solve in the moment. I provide written feedback to about half a dozen staff members per day. After students leave at the end of the day I am usually addressing the requests, complaints, or concerns of staff before I leave for the day. I am great at my job and wouldn't want to be doing anything else.