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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I highly recommend part-time if it’s workable financially. I’m a fed atty worked part-time for a few years while our kids were in early elementary. I was allowed to do it because I still worked 5 days a week, just shorter days (30 hours per week).  Honestly, I worked more than 30 hours, but by being part-time, I was better able to manage everyone’s expectations for my schedule and I had flexibility to take the time for planned and “urgent” child-related things. And because I still worked every day, I maintained my normal workload so my colleagues didn’t have to cover for me. Bottom line - it wasn’t easy, but it bought me the flexibility to be a less anxious parent while enabling me to continue my professional career during the most challenging of childcare years.[/quote]

If you ‘maintained your workload’ then you just accepted less pay for the same amount of work ? In return for flexible hours? [/quote]

This issue comes down to whether you're trying to go part time to cut your work responsibilities, or if you're trying to go part time to commit less hours to work.  Most people are absurdly inefficient at work - one hour lunches, dumb meetings etc. It's pretty easy to figure out how to turn an 8 hour day into a 5.5 hour day and still get all the same amount of work done.  Most moms who go PT are doing the schedule change to make sure they can walk away from work at 3pm every day, and don't care if they get paid for the same work output as a FT person.  That's how I was.  Happy to take a commensurate pay cut in order to walk away from work without guilt. I still got most of my work done. It was a short period of my career (5 years, only one kid) and i was seen as a highly productive employee still during that time, so easy to slide back into full time with extremely high pay.  [/quote]

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