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Hi everyone,
I work for a company as a consultant yet I call the owner my boss. Although I have always called him my boss, him paying for email service to my Blackberry, buying my programs to benefit his company and supplying me with business cards, I am still only a consultant and I want to start having more say about when I will do the work and how quickly I will get it to them. They want everything ASAP. Everything is under a tight deadline. That use to be ok with me, but now that my son is becoming more mobile and I'd like to get out of the house more with him because I am going insane being in the house most of the day, it's not working for me any longer.
(To give a little bit more detail: I work only when they need me to work and I have no clue when that will be. I may work 0 hours for a few weeks and 40 hours the next week. I work while my son sleeps and he's a great sleeper but when and is ASAP and he's awake, I feel like I am really being pulled into two directions and I often end up putting work before my son and letting him cry. I do that and keep telling him, and myself, that just a few more minutes and then I'll be done and all yours. But it's starting to become more frequent and will become worse with the holiday season.)
I can't be a slave to this companies demands because it's just not going to work when I'm a mom too. But what else do I do? They pay me well (not well enough for me to pay for a babysitter or day care), they treat me as part of the team and MOST of the time they treat me as as a valued employee but it's hard to read that in their deadline driving emails.
I feel that I am extremely lucky to have this job. There are more pros then cons, but the cons are starting to really stand out to me. I really want to work when it's more convenient for me and that may require a full day/that night or a day+ to complete the work because I can't sit there for 8+ hours.
I know I needed to vent, but I would love to meet other moms who work like I do (by when emails come in) and in general to know if I should say something to my "boss" that I can't work on deadline projects any longer or would that just totally put me in jeopardy of loosing a great job.
Thanks for listening or any thoughts,
Brooke |
| Posted by bneug on 09/22/2008 04:46 PM
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Hi bneug, when I was looking for work from home I ran across a company that wanted to set my hours and about what you are going through. I can imagine you feel frustrated especially since you may go for weeks without any paycheck.
If you are looking to try something more flexible let me know and I will share my business opportunity with you.
Good Luck.
Roxanne |
| posted by Roxanne on 10/05/2008 11:24 PM
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