Comments on: Time Pressure – Feeling the Squeeze? http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722 work + life + family = interconnectivity Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pen http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722&cpage=1#comment-216 Pen Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:51:00 +0000 http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722#comment-216 I think when we both had more flexibility we just both got frantic, looking back. We tried to do a lot more together. One of the things that has been sacrificed with one working full time is actually spending time on the same things. For instance, it was quite frequent that both of us would go to medical appointments or kindy events for the kid. Or we'd all go shopping together and do those kinds of chores together. Which made it a bit less like a chore, I think. These days our time together is much more likely to be focused 'leisure time' like going to the park or the museum or kicking around home doing things that we enjoy. The chores get more parceled out piecemeal. Don't know which way was better. Good luck with the flat strap at uni - hope you get a bit of a break during summer. I think when we both had more flexibility we just both got frantic, looking back. We tried to do a lot more together. One of the things that has been sacrificed with one working full time is actually spending time on the same things. For instance, it was quite frequent that both of us would go to medical appointments or kindy events for the kid. Or we’d all go shopping together and do those kinds of chores together. Which made it a bit less like a chore, I think. These days our time together is much more likely to be focused ‘leisure time’ like going to the park or the museum or kicking around home doing things that we enjoy. The chores get more parceled out piecemeal. Don’t know which way was better.

Good luck with the flat strap at uni – hope you get a bit of a break during summer.

]]> By: admin http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722&cpage=1#comment-214 admin Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:11:26 +0000 http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722#comment-214 That's really interesting, because it seems that full on - full time work may be the only way to innoculate oneself from time squeezes on the home front. While flexibility is great, the partner with the most has to take on more time demands. I guess in a perfect world - if both partners could get equally flexible jobs that could ease the squeeze? This semester my partner Mr G has also taken over the kid wrangling, including ballet lessons, shopping, and school drop offs and pick ups because I have been flat strap at uni, which is on the other side of town. That’s really interesting, because it seems that full on – full time work may be the only way to innoculate oneself from time squeezes on the home front. While flexibility is great, the partner with the most has to take on more time demands. I guess in a perfect world – if both partners could get equally flexible jobs that could ease the squeeze? This semester my partner Mr G has also taken over the kid wrangling, including ballet lessons, shopping, and school drop offs and pick ups because I have been flat strap at uni, which is on the other side of town.

]]> By: Pen http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722&cpage=1#comment-212 Pen Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:46:01 +0000 http://www.worklifeinterconnectivity.com/?p=722#comment-212 In our family at present it is the father who is the time stressed one. He is working five days a week during school hours, collecting the kid and doing nearly all the kid wrangling and keeping-the-house-going stuff as well. I am in a position of relative luxury of going to work full time and being the supplementary sort of house person. We don't really have any networks to help but I guess we try and prioritise what we think is important. And no one does much ironing. In our family at present it is the father who is the time stressed one. He is working five days a week during school hours, collecting the kid and doing nearly all the kid wrangling and keeping-the-house-going stuff as well. I am in a position of relative luxury of going to work full time and being the supplementary sort of house person. We don’t really have any networks to help but I guess we try and prioritise what we think is important. And no one does much ironing.

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