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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Financially, your way better off keeping your 5 hour a week part time job and simply finding something else to occupy your time or interests such as volunteering. [/quote]

This.  You have an ideal situation.  You are able to be home full time and take care of any and all sick days/snow days/holidays/teacher work days plus you still have your foot in the door working very part time at a very well paying job in your field.

I would keep on doing exactly what you're doing for now.  Your husband can use his leave to go with you and the kids on nice family vacations and to visit out of state relatives.

Adding on more hours of work at quite possibly less pay per hour is only going to complicate your life and add a layer of stress that you quite frankly do not need.  You can't compare yourself to a single parent because single parents almost always have full time back up childcare in place.  In your situation, you do not have before/after school in place, you are the one who provides childcare on sick days/holidays/snow days and during the summer.  If you went back to work even PT, 20 hours a week, you would have to find childcare every time a snow day/sick day came up...not to mention summer vacation/winter break/spring break.[/quote]

OP here.  Yes, it is a good situation and I would love it if they could give me more hours but they really cannot give me more than 5 per week.  Working 5 hours per week just makes me feel like i'm stagnating.  I'm bored.  Yes, it's nice to have a foot in the door with this very part-time job, and my resume looks pretty good because I've had this 5 hour per week job for a few years now.  But, my days feel lacking in purpose honestly--i spent all of my time cleaning/cooking/grocery shopping/shopping and meeting friends for lunch.  I do all the domestic stuff.

Husband also works 70 hour weeks with weekly work travel.

If I did find another part-time job, it would have to be as flexible as the one I have now, where I can plan my hours according to my schedule.  Ideally I would work 10-15 hours per week with the ability to take off for sick days/snow days and school breaks.  Usually we plan a vacation week for school breaks and/or fly in the Grandparents--for winter break we take one week vacation and then fly in the grandparents for the second week, for example.  We do summer camps for summer already so that is covered as my kids would be super bored at home.[/quote]

Keep your 5 hour per week job and do volunteer work at the school.  You can volunteer in the classroom (I did language arts, computer room, orchestra) plus you can volunteer for field trips, field day/other events and go to PTA meetings.  Believe me, you will stay busy.  Getting an extra 5 or so hours of paid worth is not worth turning your life upside to make it happen.  [/quote]

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