If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
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I work for a trade association for an industry that is incredibly family-friendly. There is a lot of travel (2-4 nights monthly), but I can bring the family with me (to places they want to go). Daycare is across the street, my commute is ten minutes, and even though we don't have a formal work from home policy, my boss is good about letting me quietly work from home on sick days, snow days, etc.
I am underpaid ($80k where most of my colleagues are at least $120k), but the flexibility is worth it for us. I should note that I paid my dues before I had children: a lot of hard work, long hours, and loyalty to my boss. I don't think I could have as much leeway if I was a new hire who hadn't proven herself yet. |
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publisher- extremely flexible as long as we make deadlines- 150 or so
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Anonymous
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I'm in a policy position in the federal
Government (law degree). |
Anonymous
| Management consulting for small company in federal sector. I specialize in IT portfolio management and governance. Love my company. Flexibility depends on client. Love my current client and it's flexible. Other ones have sucked - bad environment and no ability to work from home. $108k but getting ready to put it for promotion so hopefully a good bump up then. |
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| Software engineer. Love it. |
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| Tenured prof, humanities. $85K. Super flex schedule, good bennies, vibrant college life, intelligent colleagues, and friendly office. Summers to research/write. Travel 2x/year to conferences and catch up with grad school friends. Love it, though can be painful getting tenure at a good school in a desirable location. |
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| Psychologist. About $75k with a mix of interesting work through a combination of my day job at a university and my evening private practice. In my university job I have summers off to lounge by the pool and good benefits. |
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Transactional lawyer, I work mostly from home part-time - about 24-28 hours/week. I go to the office a few times a month.
Salary + bonus last year was $120K. |
Anonymous
| high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it. |
Anonymous
| Lawyer with a boutique firm - I leave at 5 nearly every day, have flexibility about working from home, interesting mix of work, great salary, and short commute. Some weeks I work hard, others I don't -- kind of depends on what's happening on my cases right now. But I enjoy what I do and compared to some of my colleagues at other firms (big and small) or even at government, I work a lot fewer hours. I realize that I am lucky. |
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What industry? |
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| Self employed lawyer. I work 20-30 hours per week and usually make $100+ per year. I can take all the leave I want to because I work for myself, but I don't have paid vacation because I work for myself. I wouldn't trade the flexibility I have for more money and less flexibility. |
Anonymous
This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery. |
Anonymous
| slp private practice--work about 10 hours doing therapy plus 8-10 board of ed evals a month. I make about 5k a month but could easily make more if I want--just prefer to be home with my kids and use this to supplement husband's income. |
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pp here...10 hours of therapy per week, 8-10 evals per month--just wanted to clarify. |