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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My company is interested in hiring a couple of people to job-share the receptionist position. We're thinking 5 hours each, each day-- a 9-2 shift and a 2-7 shift. SAHMs interested in returning to the workforce would be ideal. We're a small company, very friendly and flexible, and looking for people with a high degree of professionalism and initiative.  If anyone is interested, please post your email and I'll send you some more information. [/quote]

I've been home for 15 years. I would die of boredom working as a receptionist! I'm sure I'd be great at it - for the first couple of weeks, maybe even for a month. After that I'd be so bored, I don't think I'd be able to get out of bed in the morning to come in to work.

I have not lost my skills. I've done a ton of volunteer work in my field, unpaid, but still, I've done a professional job. Yet now when I send out my resume, I get nothing. I am working full time at three volunteer jobs, and hoping to make some connections that will help me find paid work.

I don't think it's my age or lack of paid work. I think it's the recession more than anything. I get lots of praise for the volunteer work I do, and I can see that I'm valued and clearly more skilled at doing what I do than all of the other volunteers and some of the paid professionals in the organizations where I volunteer. They see that too. But they have no paid jobs, which is why they need volunteers.

It's the recession, stupid. [/quote]

I don't think that it is JUST the economy and according to the experts, we are no longer in a recession.  Being out of the paid workforce for 15 years is a very long time and you will probably have to start at a lower level and while being a receptionist is not the most exciting position, it is a start.  I think the PP who posted about this opportunity is really nice for letting people know about this job share and I'm sure, she will get lots of feedback.  I was out of the workforce for a little over a year staying home with my son and I still had to take a pay cut when I got back to work.  It took me about six months to find a suitable position and I'm very grateful for my job and the paycheck.  I would even take a receptionist position just to get back in and I would be the best receptionist that the company ever hired.  You never know what opportunity you will encounter while working as a receptionist for the company.  Good luck to you![/quote]

After 15 years out of my profession (8 year detour into another profession, 7 years as SAHM), I had to start at a junior role again. It was fine, 6 months afterwards I got a bigger pay bump and new mid-level role. I mommy-tracked myself however and stayed PT at that mid-level for 5 years while going thru a long and slow divorce. As soon as the divorce was over, took a senior role at another firm with an even higher salary. 
Since then - well, I think things would have been fine and dandy if I wanted to stay in my stable sector but I wanted more and I wanted to make up for lost time.
I wanted bigger profile projects at bigger profile firms and the post-pandemic burst of hires helped me make that lateral move into a different clientele sector. It is far more competitive, the projects far more complicated and I'm still looking for career stability. 
While the it has been a bumpy road this year I do feel enormously lucky that I made this lateral transition. Everyone I know in my previous sector is still stuck in that sector. It is VERY hard to differentiate out. It's sort of like going from LL Bean/Land's End to Dior/LVMH.

It's not that I am ambitious. I am looking for career flexibility at a global firm so that I can transition to the town where my mother is getting older to help care for her and then transition to wherever my kids end up in their adult lives. 
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