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i would work 36 hours and have a half day on fridays

If I had free daycare, I'd work 15 hours - 3x a week, 5 hour days. Enough to stimulate my mind and contribute, but lots of time for family, life, and exercise.

In my ideal world I would work three days a week, 6 hours each day (18 hours total). I would love to have a couple of extra days off to take care of the household stuff like cleaning, laundry, and grocery shopping, leaving weekends free for family time.

I currently work 4 days per week, about 10-11 hours per day. I like my 4 day schedule but ideally I'd cut back the hours per day a couple days per week to make my schedule more like 35 hours per week. I like my career a lot so not working wouldn't be an option.

I like 40 hours but I'd rather do 4 days 10 hrs a day!

Right now, I have the option of working 4 10 hour shifts, or five 8 hour shifts.

I'd rather work three 10's if I had the option of going down to part time.

I would love to work two 8 hour days each week. I feel like that would be such a nice balance - stay at home most days but also be able to work and get out of the house and take a break from kids now and again!

I think my ideal would be working T/Th 8-4:30.

Right now I work 9 hour days and I don't really mind but I'd love to drop to 3 days per week. Also ideally I guess I'd rather do 8 hours, but even 9 hrs 3 days/week would be awesome

I work 25-30 hours usually in 3 days. 25 hours is my ideal. Anything more than that is a little too much for our family circumstances. We have a part time nanny so it's flexible.

My kids go to school 30 hours and I think that is perfect for us. 4 days at daycare (2 6.5 hour, 2 8.5 hours). Right now I'm working one weekend day to be closer to 40 but it would be nice if the 30 was enough.

None! Which I SAH so that works. But I really miss volunteering at the library. I wish I could still do that a couple days a week. And I guess if they wanted to pay me for it that'd be nice too. But less than 20 for sure.

@Truth Bombs: that's pretty much my schedule.

Since I'm self employed and freelance I can set my own hours. I really like what I do so I would want to keep working. My workload changes weekly, so it's nice that I can adapt my hours accordingly. Some weeks that means 5 hour days and some weeks that means 10 hour days.

I'd love to job share with another teacher : I would do M/T and every second W.

@looch: I really really would love to do it, but I would have to pay extra $$ into my pension, and my daycare requires children under 2 to go full time, so it costs too much $$ right now.

Maybe next year when both my girls are over 2 and can drop down to daycare 3x a week.

24, I currently am at about 20 paid (teacher, so a million unpaid). I'd like to add about 4 hours to my week.

I'm in a similar position and just requested to cut back to 4 days, 8 hours each, so 32 hours per week. I'm pretty excited. In an absolute ideal world, I think I'd work 3-4 days 6 hours each. I may get there, but we'll see how 4 days goes first. We're also talking about my hi stand cutting back to 4 days and having different days off, so we each have baby time.

Day care is not the issue - minimum horse billed at my job is. Haha. Otherwise I would work Mon-Thurs 9-5 That sounds lovely!!

I would love to do 10-15 hours per week (so 1-2 full days).
I went back to work last year at 25 hours and it was nice but still a little more than I preferred. I'd rather have more days home than working days.
Also, only if it was guaranteed. Which would prob mean a career change for me. I went back at 25 hours but it still ended up being 30-35 hours because they sometimes asked me to be on calls and complete tasks on my days off.