Just that really. I work 80% over 5 days, that is a total of 6 hours a day, 30 hours a week.
I used to work approximately 10-7; now I have to leave by 5 at the latest (I'm a single mother and my DD is 2.4 and full-time at nursery).
I work in the communications department of a large organisation, mainly working on my own projects within a team of around 25. I have one support person and an intern reporting to me. I have some room to delegate but not much.
I find I just can't manage to get through the work, even though I've shed one task since my latest performance review.
I think one major problem is that due to my working pattern involving attendance during core hours of all 5 days I still attend 100% of meetings and answer 100% of emails. Also, my time seems to be frittered away on small (or small-seeming tasks) and I don't make headway on my more strategic projects.
I don't want to drop too many tasks as I risk getting sidelined into uninteresting work without prospects for further development (I'm not ambitions in career terms however and don't have the capacity to move into a management position which basically would require me to be full-time or even a bit more).
I'm really looking for practical tips as to how to get through more tasks in the day, or recommended reading.
Thanks!
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How do you manage a full-time job in 80% hours?
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Yika · 06/02/2013 22:19
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