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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I SAH full-time when my son was 0-2.  I went back to work very part-time when he turned 2 (10 hours per week) and now work the same now (he is 5 and in Kindergarten).  So I consider myself somewhat of a SAHM.  I plan to continue working 10 hours per week throughout elementary school at least.  I love my schedule.  It's the perfect mix of work an leisure.  Here's why I only work 10 hours per week:

-DH is in a very inflexible, non-family friendly job.  His hours are 6 am - 6 pm and will never change.  He can never do drop offs or pick ups, sick days or snow days.  Since I have to do all those things it makes sense for me to have a very flexible, part-time job.

-No local family in the area to help out for sick days or snow days.

-DH can't attend any programs/events at the school unless he takes the entire day off, so he can't take the morning off to go to a school event, for example.  Since we have no family in the area I feel like I need to be at every single school program/event so my son has someone there.

-DH works 70 hour weeks.  I take care of all the grocery shopping, meal prep, cleaning and repairs.

-Since I don't work every day, I still have free time to get appointments done, shop, work out, hobbies, etc.  It's great.

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working mom here.

10 hours is nothing. why even bother? I think our interns even do more than 10 hours a week.[/quote]

PP here.  Why bother?  Because I get to be a professional in the field I love but work reasonable hours, make good money (I get paid a lot per hour), and be there for everything my child needs (sick days, snow days, all school activities, volunteer at the school).  It's enough hours that I stay intellectually engaged but not enough hours that I feel burned out.  It's perfect and I love my schedule.[/quote]

I guess I'm just wondering what you can even accomplish in 10 hours.

Are you per diem?

One ten hour day a week would make sense.

But splitting it up over 3 or 5 days is crazy. What could you even get done in that time?![/quote]

NP here.  Theres a lot of piecemeal work you could do like that.   I review upcoming changes to my company’s software to see if it warrants a change to our documentation.  If the change is small, I make the modification myself.  If it’s a significant change, someone else handles it.  I spend a couple hours a day doing that.  Works for the company, works for me.  Different people have different jobs, different companies have different needs.  [/quote]

2 hours a day? 
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Yes.  Is that somehow hard to comprehend?[/quote]

I mean yeah. In my experience, I don't actually accomplish much in 2 hours. It takes 30 minutes to settle in once I get to work. Gotta get my coffee, check my email, check my planner, reschedule conflicts or priorities, colleagues inevitably come by to chat. And that's not even including the issue of morning meetings![/quote]

Well, I work from home, so that’s two hours at my desk, then I move on with the rest of my day.  I only put in for time I spend working. [/quote]

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