Spinoff: "Mommy track" jobs?

[Anonymous]

What are the best jobs/fields where you put in your 8 hours, that's it, and the work isn't very stressful? I have a 2 year old and a very demanding job. My husband is a bit of a workaholic. I feel my mental and physical health deteriorating, and I need to make a change. I want to keep working, but not like this.

For context: currently a director at a nonprofit and making $110k/year. Would want to take no more than a 25% pay cut for less stress.

[Anonymous]

For me: an individual contributor position in my field was so much less stressful and demanding than management. I’m in tech and my previous role was sort of directorial — responsible for getting stuff done as well as managing reports and clients. My new role is pure coding and I love it. I haven’t done serious overtime in years (either role) but do have a very flexible schedule (eg I’m often on late at night to finish stuff up but it’s because I ran errands during normal work hours or picked my kid up early from aftercare).

I think it helps to figure out which parts of your job are incompatible with parenting for you. In my case it was that managing clients was the same skillset as managing toddlers and I wanted to save that energy for home life.

[Anonymous]

I'm a reading specialist. But it doesn't work if you're the bread winner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the best jobs/fields where you put in your 8 hours, that's it, and the work isn't very stressful? I have a 2 year old and a very demanding job. My husband is a bit of a workaholic. I feel my mental and physical health deteriorating, and I need to make a change. I want to keep working, but not like this.

For context: currently a director at a nonprofit and making $110k/year. Would want to take no more than a 25% pay cut for less stress.

Nonprofits are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Dental hygienist. Pay is $60.00 an hour.

[Anonymous]

I’m a non supervisory gs14 and make $150 and work 40 hours per week. I telework 4 days per week. I have a 3 year old. When she’s a bit older, I’ll kick it up and refocus on my career. For now, I am very grateful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a non supervisory gs14 and make $150 and work 40 hours per week. I telework 4 days per week. I have a 3 year old. When she’s a bit older, I’ll kick it up and refocus on my career. For now, I am very grateful.

It really doesn’t get better when they’re older. I am out to 9pm every night driving my kids to activities and sports — and they don’t even do travel (we do have 2 kids so maybe one and done works better).

[Anonymous]

I love my work as a fed. Forty hours a week, good team, and I am devoted to the mission. Since I started, I only go in two days per week (except over 3 years full time at home during COVID) and the leave policy is generous so no problem taking off last minute.

I switched from a corporate job when I had my first. I make just under $200k. It's a great mommy track job.

[Anonymous]

IC in a senior legal role

[Anonymous]

I'm a supervisory GS-13, so I barely make more than you, OP, but I basically have gone for positions where the work is steady and heavy, but generally not on-site and extremely time sensitive.

For example, I'm an archeologist by training, and there are plenty of positions at the GS-12 to 13 level where you have to be on site frequently and on call for issues related to extreme weather, property damage, finds during construction, angry phone calls from local government, etc. As a mom I've gravitated towards roles that are mostly office based with heavy telework or remote work, and that don't require responses at any hour, like working on regulatory requirements and documentation projects. It is less fun but the work life balance is so much better. There may be a way to seek out those jobs and avoid the on call ones in your field too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the best jobs/fields where you put in your 8 hours, that's it, and the work isn't very stressful? I have a 2 year old and a very demanding job. My husband is a bit of a workaholic. I feel my mental and physical health deteriorating, and I need to make a change. I want to keep working, but not like this.

For context: currently a director at a nonprofit and making $110k/year. Would want to take no more than a 25% pay cut for less stress.

Nonprofits are the worst.

Depends. I am a major gifts officer at a large nonprofit you have heard of. Prior to this job, I primarily worked at small nonprofits with a fundraising team of 2-3 people. That sucked. This job is good because I am paid a competitive salary, great benefits, ample room for professional development and growth. The smaller nonprofits knew they needed fundraisers but didn't focus on how they could create programming that people wanted to pay for. Also you often just sat in the same role, with no hope of promotion, for years at a time. When you work at a large nonprofit with more resources it is better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a reading specialist. But it doesn't work if you're the bread winner.

But you are the read winner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the best jobs/fields where you put in your 8 hours, that's it, and the work isn't very stressful? I have a 2 year old and a very demanding job. My husband is a bit of a workaholic. I feel my mental and physical health deteriorating, and I need to make a change. I want to keep working, but not like this.

For context: currently a director at a nonprofit and making $110k/year. Would want to take no more than a 25% pay cut for less stress.

Central office at school district.

[Anonymous]

Try to move to an association. They generally have better pay and quality of life than traditional nonprofits.

[Anonymous]

Or look for Director roles at private schools.