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[quote=Anonymous]1. Full time.  It's flexible in that we have to do 8.5 hours/day (including 30 mins for lunch), it has to be one continuous stretch, but we can come in as early as 6:30 am and as late as 10 am (meaning that you can leave as early as 3 or as late as 6:30).  I do 10-6:30 and it's generally fine (I generally need to go in early for a meeting about once a week).  Most people telework once per week, but I don't because my boss doesn't like telework (it's not a trust issue, he just feels it's easier to work with people actually present) plus with the work that I do, teleworking is hard (I'm in constant communication with my boss and I feel like teleworking creates a barrier to that).

2. Stress level is medium.  Job is challenging, but I love it and after being bored for several years, I'm excited and grateful to be challenged.  I'm in one of the more stressful areas of the agency.  At my first position with the agency, the stress level was very low.

3. Not really sure on that one.  I don't think I'm cut out to be a SAHM, and I really want to work because I get a lot of satisfaction out of it.

4. Eh. Some are great (our health insurance is less expensive, although for many that's not the case).  Fewer vacation days and I feel that the hours are less flexible (at a firm you could cut out early if it was slow or make appts during the day without worrying about "making up" the hours, etc.; I can't do that as a fed).  I could also telework easier from the two firms I worked at.  And the maternity leave is obv terrible (at both firms, I got 18 weeks paid).

5. No.  When I took this job, I figured I'd do ~5 years and then go back to a firm with a better shot at partner, or go in house for more $$$.  Now I'd consider in house, but I can't imagine going to a firm.  I feel so much more invested in the work I'm doing.   At a firm, I had a hard time caring, and that was reflected in my work, unfortunately.  (For full disclosure, DH works at a firm, so the pay cut hasn't hurt as much as it could for others.)

6. I do wish I was home a bit more, but I don't think there's ever a point where I wouldn't say that.  That said, about an hour per day more would be really nice.  That said, I never work weekends.  I think maybe twice all year.  That makes a huge difference.[/quote]

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