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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband works a typical DC "big job".  Long unpredictable hours, travel, influence (in his realm of work anyway), interesting work. 
I 100% telecommute in a somewhat mind-numbing job but it pays well ($100K) because I only work about 5 hours a day.  I'm paid for 40 but I'm efficient and I'm not closely supervised at all.  
Our family couldn't handle me working much more than this because we have 3 elementary aged kids and I'm the default parent for everything.  
However, I'm now 42.  On one hand I'd like to ride this job into the sunset.  I get about a $5K raise each year.  Give me 10 years and I'll be making $150K for very short work days. 
However, I'm realizing more and more that I've sacrificed my own professional growth because I've balanced out my husband's career (and long hours) for years.  Without me treading water in this position, we'd 
never be able to have him work as he does and still have a functional marriage and family. 
If you're also in this position, can you share your thoughts?  It's been weighing on my mind. [/quote]

Careful, your coworkers are plotting against you b/c they know you are committed time fraud with your company. [/quote]

I don't see it as time fraud.  OP is paid to do x amount of work.  It would take some people 40 hours to get it done, some people 50, and others like her 25 hours.  Why should she get paid less to do the same amount of work?  Should she become less efficient in order to fill up the extra hours?  If the level and amount of work is worth 100k, then it's worth 100k no matter how many hours a week she puts in and gets it done.  [/quote]

If she is a contract employee paid for the project then yes, that makes sense. But she herself said it was a standard 40 hour job which is generally paid by the hour.  If she made arrangements with her employer she would have said it was a part time job, but then she couldn't complain about her career as much b/c making over $100k for part time work is a very sweet gig. [/quote]

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