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[quote=Anonymous]I work in an industry where weekend work is not unusual generally speaking and absolutely expected during busy periods. It’s also very common for people to spend a few hours over the weekend catching up on work that they didn’t get to during the week.

Ever since having my first child two years ago, I find it exceedingly difficult to make time to fit work in over the weekend. It’s actually easier for me to deal with the busy periods where I know I’m going to have to spend the weekend working. When that happens, we just plan for my husband to take on most of the childcare, and we accept that we won’t get to some chores/errands until the next week. What’s really difficult is making time for work on “normal” weekends where I’m spending time with my daughter, doing family activities, running errands, doing chores, hopefully fitting a workout or two in, and occasionally making time for a date night or seeing friends. I feel like I get very little time to myself as it is, and I absolutely do not want to spend that time catching up on non-urgent work. However, the culture of my job is that most people spend a few hours catching up/getting a head start on the week on Sundays. If I rarely/never do this, I end up falling farther and farther behind my peers on my billables for the year. Working parents, how do you deal when putting in a few hours of non-urgent work every weekend is the norm? I didn’t  fully appreciate how busy my weekends would be before my daughter was born, and I don’t see this getting any easier when she begins doing sports and other weekend activities.[/quote]

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