Career with work-life balance

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Anonymous wrote:Retail. Hospitality.

Disagree and am familiar with both. Long hours, often very inflexible and varying schedules, and terrible pay. Oh, and you're typically treated as totally replaceable and expendable so there's that.

[Anonymous]

Yeah retail is horrific especially around the holidays. Don't really get much choice even if you are a senior person.

[Anonymous]

What about PT assistants or OT assistants? That isn't always typical Monday-Friday work. Not too sure on the pay though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah retail is horrific especially around the holidays. Don't really get much choice even if you are a senior person.

Right but OP said she wanted to work nights and temporarily weekends. Retail is shitty, but she could probably manage a nights/weekends schedule. If she chooses someplace closed on Christmas and Thanksgiving, she would get those off. She obviously wouldn't be able to take off the whole week though.

[Anonymous]

Dental hygienist. I make $50 an hour and I work part-time. My hours are 9-4 with an hour paid lunch break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dental hygienist. I make $50 an hour and I work part-time. My hours are 9-4 with an hour paid lunch break.

That is not at all typical. Is that your hourly rate no benefits?
PRN status?
There is no way you are salaried at $50/hour as a dental hygienist

[Anonymous]

Another very happy nurse here. Even right out of nursing school I never had a problem getting night and weekend shifts so that I could be home with the kids during the day. I've gotten by with very minimal day care. It will be very hard on you when the kids are young, you'll be exhausted, but it's so worth it for the family. Unless you go on to be a CRNA, you won't be rich, but you can easily make low six figures working full time and feed your family. There's always potential for extra hours or a supplemental per diem job in case you need extra income.

I honestly thank my lucky stars every day for my nursing license and the flexibility that comes with it. I've never missed a field trip, school performance, doctor's appt, etc. I never have to call in sick or scramble for day care when there's a snow day. When the kids are older I can always transition into day position as a nurse manager or educator if I choose. I can't recommend nursing enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another very happy nurse here. Even right out of nursing school I never had a problem getting night and weekend shifts so that I could be home with the kids during the day. I've gotten by with very minimal day care. It will be very hard on you when the kids are young, you'll be exhausted, but it's so worth it for the family. Unless you go on to be a CRNA, you won't be rich, but you can easily make low six figures working full time and feed your family. There's always potential for extra hours or a supplemental per diem job in case you need extra income.

I honestly thank my lucky stars every day for my nursing license and the flexibility that comes with it. I've never missed a field trip, school performance, doctor's appt, etc. I never have to call in sick or scramble for day care when there's a snow day. When the kids are older I can always transition into day position as a nurse manager or educator if I choose. I can't recommend nursing enough.

I am not the OP, years ago I once thought of going back for a nursing degree. I am rather glad I didn't though. I'm in my mid 50s now though. My feet hurt! I don't think I could be on my feet for so many hours at my age!! Most of my friends who are in their 50s now and have nursing degrees work for schools, camps, or in administrative jobs. I am curious.. what do nurses do when they are my age and their bodies ache?

[Anonymous]

I work with quite a few older nurses who run circles around me! But a lot of older nurses go into administration, management, education, legal nurse consulting, nurse informatics, research, etc. There are so many options away from the bedside now.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a patent agent friend. GS 14 12 years out of school. Works out of home all week, meets the kids bus everyday and has a booming photography business.

this is just the patent agency, though -- they ran out of space and kicked their senior employees out. Most of them work work from. That said, after the recent scandal, their computers and time management are monitored like you wouldn't believe. Not sure how PP's friend gets out of doing her job and taking pretty pictures instead, but as a taxpayer, I'm dismayed. That's the definition of waste, fraud, and abuse.

From what I heard, the uspto is an agency that generates profit. They are paid through fees associated with patent prosecution, i.e. Inventors. also, I don't see any mention of anything fraud, waste, or abuse in pp response. Plenty of people I know pursue other interests, even while working high level government positions.

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Anonymous wrote:Another very happy nurse here. Even right out of nursing school I never had a problem getting night and weekend shifts so that I could be home with the kids during the day. I've gotten by with very minimal day care. It will be very hard on you when the kids are young, you'll be exhausted, but it's so worth it for the family. Unless you go on to be a CRNA, you won't be rich, but you can easily make low six figures working full time and feed your family. There's always potential for extra hours or a supplemental per diem job in case you need extra income.

I honestly thank my lucky stars every day for my nursing license and the flexibility that comes with it. I've never missed a field trip, school performance, doctor's appt, etc. I never have to call in sick or scramble for day care when there's a snow day. When the kids are older I can always transition into day position as a nurse manager or educator if I choose. I can't recommend nursing enough.

I am not the OP, years ago I once thought of going back for a nursing degree. I am rather glad I didn't though. I'm in my mid 50s now though. My feet hurt! I don't think I could be on my feet for so many hours at my age!! Most of my friends who are in their 50s now and have nursing degrees work for schools, camps, or in administrative jobs. I am curious.. what do nurses do when they are my age and their bodies ache?

My mom's in her early 60s and is and ICU nurse. She routinely has to move 300 lb+ patients. The equipment for moving these patients doesn't work after a certain weight. Still, she loves her job, and she makes six figures with an RN degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dh is a statistics analyst/programer and had great work-life balance. Works from home, has time to work out and take care of errands during work hours on most days.

Every day?

I find it amazing there are that many employers that trust employees to work from home every single day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dh is a statistics analyst/programer and had great work-life balance. Works from home, has time to work out and take care of errands during work hours on most days.

Every day?

I find it amazing there are that many employers that trust employees to work from home every single day.

Some jobs are production based. If production quality and quantity are maintained, it's easier to trust employees.

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Anonymous wrote:Dental hygienist. I make $50 an hour and I work part-time. My hours are 9-4 with an hour paid lunch break.

That is not at all typical. Is that your hourly rate no benefits?
PRN status?
There is no way you are salaried at $50/hour as a dental hygienist

She's probably a contractor. I was going to go this path (DH carries very good benefits) the rate that many dentists are paying for Temps is $500/day. No benefits, 1099, but a ton of flexibility and choice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dental hygienist. I make $50 an hour and I work part-time. My hours are 9-4 with an hour paid lunch break.

That is not at all typical. Is that your hourly rate no benefits?
PRN status?
There is no way you are salaried at $50/hour as a dental hygienist

She's probably a contractor. I was going to go this path (DH carries very good benefits) the rate that many dentists are paying for Temps is $500/day. No benefits, 1099, but a ton of flexibility and choice.

Right but that needs to be said before people think that it's a salaried and benefits $50/HR.

You have to pay about 25% of that $50 to taxes, SS and Medicare which brings it down to around $42, then pay your own health insurance or get added to a plan, another $5 or so, and no paid days off or vacation days so if you or child get sick, need to go to MD appt, want to go away for holidays you have to factor that cost in.

I did this for awhile in another field and I ended up at about $28/hr spread over the year taking the above into account.