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(1) Are you part-time, full-time, flexible schedule? Do you ever work from home? How much flexibility do you have? Do you keep 9-5 hours or a different schedule? 
My hours are flexible.

(2) What is your stress level? Are you challenged by your job?
Stress level = medium but fluctuates depending on assignment. Like any job, some aspects are challenging, some are not.

(3) Do you feel like you are a better or more "present" parent because of your job?
YES!

(4) Are the benefits all that they are hyped up to be?
They are wonderful benefits: healthcare, lots of leave and flexibilities.

(5) Do you ever wish that you worked at a firm? Why or why not?
HELL NO.

All of this said, each agency is different. I am in the process of leaving one agency to go to another. The "old" agency is not at all conducive to working parents (or people who have lives other than work) and has been very rigid and old-fashioned on things like AWS and telework.  New Agency is a model for both and for work-life balance.

(6) Are you happy with your job and home life (and so-called work-life balance)?

(7) Is there anything that you would do differently knowing what you know now? [/quote]

I think it's hilarious that you are touting an agency that you haven't even started working for yet as a model for work-life balance.  Maybe it'll work out great for you, but I'd reserve judgment until after you've actually worked there.[/quote]

I don't know why you would find it hilarious. It is the model and constantly in the news because of this. And, maybe you accept jobs w/o having discussed these matters, but I have not. Work-Life balance was stressed -highly stressed- in both my interviews prior to being offered the job. I had the chance to talk to staff attorneys and supervisors. 
So, laugh away . . . or piss off. Either way, I don't care.[/quote]

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