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ohh Tishy - shame about your nanny situation. Whereabouts in Welly are you? I would have offered to look after your kids if you were close by
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After maternity leave I returned back to work Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 2.30pm.  15 hrs per week.  I find my hours and childcare arrangements ideal.  I am with the same employer and previously worked fulltime.

What I didn't bargain for however was being treated 'differently' when I returned to work after maternity leave.  There has been a decline in work while I was away, and even though I work in a pool of workers, I find that I'm always the one being seconded around.  I hate it and feel like a temp!  I'm wondering whether to keep at it, as I love the hours, just not the treatment. 

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After I had Jack, I continued working part time (10-15 hours a week) as I was when I was studying.

Now that Ava's here, I decided to finally get out and teach, so I do my 10-15 hour office job (flexible timetable so it fits around everything else) and 3-4 days relief teaching a week.

I love it. TBH I'd go nuts being a full time SAHM. It makes me appreciate the kids more, as I get lazy when I'm home all the time.

Commute is only 30 mins for the office job, 5-10 mins for the teaching job. I used to do non-consecutive days which I loved, but prefer consecutive ones now I'm teaching.
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Originally posted by Renee & Lauren Renee & Lauren wrote:

ohh Tishy - shame about your nanny situation. Whereabouts in Welly are you? I would have offered to look after your kids if you were close by


Thanks for the offer, we're in the Southern Suburbs. However I am happy for the girls to be starting daycare @ 2.5yo I think they're ready for it, as am I
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fair enough tishy.. gl for it
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I'd live to find 20 hours of work until the kids are school aged. That would be the best arrangement I get time with adults and $$ towards the family budget and they're not in care for too long.


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Fleur - in my experience it is VERY hard to find admin roles that are within 20 - 25hrs a week. Most admin roles end up being about 30 as a minimum in a good paid role otherwise you can do Office Junior type roles or telephonist roles that are part time/ job share.
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I have been keeping an eye on TM jobs and there seems to be a few part time admin roles in Akl averageing around 15-20 hours a week. I'm currently doing 30 hours 45 days a week - if we were staying I could easily drop 1 day and still get my work completed.


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oh must be just wellington then..lol
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I went back to work after both kidlies when they were about 4 mths old. For the first month back at work after #2 he came in with me which was actually riduculously harder than I imagined it would be!

I started back at 25 hours a week, which was just too much then and I couldn't keep up, so reduced to 20 for a while and I am back at 25 a week now.

We have a crazy morning though and I don't normally have time to even do the dishwasher or anything and we get home to a mess so not very nice but I do catch up eventually...

I love my hours the most (9:15-2:45) as I miss the traffic. It takes 15-30 mins to get to work in the am and about 15 home as there's usually no traffic.
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Hours that are outside peak traffic would be good as there doesn't seem to be as much work out west as there is on the shore or in town - not too keen on the NW motorway during peak traffic.


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The NW isn't toooooo bad in peak traffic... at least I didn't used to mind it too much when I worked full time in newton. But missing all the traffic is great!
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