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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IT is one of the few positions where you might be able to convert to part time during your child's younger years and still stay current enough to resume at the same level.  You need to talk to your employer and your HR.  I work in government contracting in IT and we've had a number of people, mostly women, but a few men, who have cut back to part-time for 1-3 years and then returned to the workforce full-time with no issues.  The only issue is that part-timers get lower annual increases because they are hourly rather than salaried.  But I've seen people who have moved to part-time for children, elder care, personal health reasons and so on.  They work 2-5 days (one person worked 2 days a week, another worked every afternoon and had a sitter for 4-5 hours each afternoon, another went to part-time telework from another state) and converted from salaried to hourly.  But the ones that returned to work full-time, essentially returned to where they were when they left.  The key was to keep working.

Yes, if you actually leave the work-force for several years, it can be difficult to return to the level you were at on your return.[/quote]

This is me. I’m a software developer in government contracting. Took a few months of maternity leave (unpaid), then returned to work 4x/week. Management had no problems with me wanting to go part-time. I was always paid hourly so there wasn’t much for them to deal with benefits-wise.[/quote]

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