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Originally Posted by fern46
I'm sorry that is happening. I experienced periods like that at work where an immense amount of time and effort was spent second guessing how each hour was spent. I think businesses fail to recognize that the cost of analyzing each detail to that degree outweighs any savings that are created. The cost in morale alone should be enough to shut that kind of approach down, but they often continue until enough people leave. Hopefully it will ease up soon. Is your organization going through any kind of restructuring or budgeting at the moment? New management?
What are all the benefits of you going part time? I imagine some time to just focus on yourself would be nice.
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I would go part time to lower the stress of having to find 40 hours of work every week. Unfortunately we just paid for the kids before and after care for the year so it doesn’t make any sense to go part time until June. Ideally I would work 3 days and have a 4 day weekend but economically that doesn’t make sense. So I would probably work 4-5 hours a day. That way we save on the before and after care. However doing that won’t give me the mental break I am looking for since I will be at work 5 days and then have the kids longer in the evening. I never thought trying to decide to go part time or quit all together would be so stressful. We have worked hard to save so that we could have these options but now I am paralyzed by them. My work has a college scholarship if your kid has high enough grades and SAT. So I always planned to stay for that but I would have to work 14 more years. I know this is a good problem to have and I shouldn’t complain but it is hard to know when to walk away. I don’t want to walk away too soon and cause us to start counting pennies. There are just too many variables to know what the right thing to do is.