Anonymous wrote:What are the best jobs/fields where you put in your 8 hours, that's it, and the work isn't very stressful? I have a 2 year old and a very demanding job. My husband is a bit of a workaholic. I feel my mental and physical health deteriorating, and I need to make a change. I want to keep working, but not like this.

For context: currently a director at a nonprofit and making $110k/year. Would want to take no more than a 25% pay cut for less stress.

Anonymous wrote:For God’s sake IC is Individual Contributor.
Meaning you aren’t in a managerial role with direct reports.

Anonymous wrote:+1 IC in a senior legal role at a big tech company.

I make over 500K and cannot believe the work life balance I have. I came from biglaw and then stressful smaller companies and wanted to move to a bigger company for the buy-side experience, not the WLB, but it has been an extra perk. My team is full of well credentialed, high performer type parents taking advantage of this situation.

I often see people from our team going out to become VP or GCs at smaller companies once their kids hit high school or college.

Anonymous wrote:i think mommy tracking is a little odd.
I'm c suite so hugely in control of my own schedule. If you work hard enough and get senior enough, you can do what you want. i go to watch my kids games. i have to work hard AROUND those and often after they are in bed or weekends. But I can absolutely 'be there' if they are sick or school closes. it's a little bit stressful but i think actually lower level jobs are less flex.

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Anonymous wrote:IC in a senior legal role

IC?

Intelligence community.

As the spouse of one of these, very much disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:Try to move to an association. They generally have better pay and quality of life than traditional nonprofits.

Never been more stressed than at an association non-profit. Everyone has to wear 10 hats and acts "like family" which is code for no boundaries.

+1

This was my experience too. And there was less accountability than in the corporate world where there is a bottom line, so things were often a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Try to move to an association. They generally have better pay and quality of life than traditional nonprofits.

Never been more stressed than at an association non-profit. Everyone has to wear 10 hats and acts "like family" which is code for no boundaries.

Anonymous wrote:Corporate communications at Capital One. I work from home three days, go in one day, basically don't work at all on Fridays. I also dick around all day. Pay isn't amazing but for how little is expected of me, it's fine.

Anonymous wrote:Corporate communications at Capital One. I work from home three days, go in one day, basically don't work at all on Fridays. I also dick around all day. Pay isn't amazing but for how little is expected of me, it's fine.

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Anonymous wrote:IC in a senior legal role

IC?

Anonymous wrote:For me: an individual contributor position in my field was so much less stressful and demanding than management. I’m in tech and my previous role was sort of directorial — responsible for getting stuff done as well as managing reports and clients. My new role is pure coding and I love it. I haven’t done serious overtime in years (either role) but do have a very flexible schedule (eg I’m often on late at night to finish stuff up but it’s because I ran errands during normal work hours or picked my kid up early from aftercare).

I think it helps to figure out which parts of your job are incompatible with parenting for you. In my case it was that managing clients was the same skillset as managing toddlers and I wanted to save that energy for home life.