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[quote=Anonymous](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?

Full time, flex schedule (9.5 hours every day and one day off per pay period), telework FOUR loooovely days a week.  It is awesome.  I am expected to keep my regular hours.

(2) What is your stress level? Are you challenged by your job?

Stress level is medium now that I'm more senior, and I do feel challenged by it, way more so than when I first started.

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

Absolutely.  Leave isn't frowned upon at all as long as your work is up to par, and the generous teleworking benefits really help with work-life balance.  When I'm in the office, I spend my lunch break mindlessly surfing the Internet or chatting with friends.  When I'm at home, I can do laundry, prep dinner, and do basic picking up so that I can be fully present for my kids when they come home and not worried about getting dinner on the table, etc.

(4) Are the benefits all that they are hyped up to be?   They're pretty great.  I love my health plan (although it's not cheap, it's worth every penny), dental is meh (but who really has good dental anyway).  Obviously there is no paid maternity leave in the federal government, and my agency is not one of those who has a leave bank, so if you want to be compensated during maternity leave you have to take annual/sick leave.

(5) Do you ever wish that you worked at a firm? Why or why not?  HELL to the NO.  I won't get rich doing what I'm doing, but I get to be home at bedtime every night, I am there in the morning and I don't work on weekends unless I want to.  My blackberry isn't ringing off the hook all the time and I'm not on antidepressants.  My SIL works for a huge firm in Manhattan and she hates her life and I hate it for her.

(6) Are you happy with your job and home life (and so-called work-life balance)?  Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

(7) Is there anything that you would do differently knowing what you know now?  No.  I really lucked out with my agency.  Not the kind of work I pictured myself doing, but I'm in it for the long haul now.  [/quote]

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