If you work F/T....

amother

↑ White ↓

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 11:25 pm

WhereIsMyPhone wrote:

Gotcha. Genuinely curious; for women who truly work full time, how do you do daycare pickup, taking kids off the bus etc?

No buses, carpool.
It is near my work so I drop off, husband does pickup. I picked a daycare that ends later even if more expensive.
I might finish in evenings/Sundays but I get 40 hours a week in if there are appointments.

amother

Clover

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 11:37 pm

I wake up at 6 am and I'm out of the house by 6:30. I daven brachos in the car and when I have additional time I say the rest.
I'm at work 7:30-3 while my cleaning lady comes for 3 hours Mon-Thurs to clean, do laundry, peel vegetables and clean, cut, and coat chicken cutlets for supper, etc. She does all the things I dislike doing.
I come home to a clean house at 3:50 and make supper--it's already prepped so it only takes a few minutes. I have big kids so I have to put up decent suppers (protein, starch, veg or salad). Kids start trickling in by 4-4:30.
Supper is at 5:30ish. Kids or I clear the table and leave the dishes in the sink for the cleaning lady.
I usually start tutoring by 6:30 or 7 pm and depending on how busy it is, I can go until 9 or 10 pm. The night before a big test I sometimes work until midnight.
My schedule only fell into place once my oldest DD started driving and the others weren't dependent on me for rides.
I usually relax from 10-12, dh gets home from work around 12:30 am and we go to bed by 1.
On Sundays I wake up late (10 am) and often tutor online for a few hours.
My girls run errands and take turns shopping for groceries, unpacking the boxes, and keeping the house stocked.

amother

↑ Olive ↓

Yesterday at 7:00 am

WhereIsMyPhone wrote:

Gotcha. Genuinely curious; for women who truly work full time, how do you do daycare pickup, taking kids off the bus etc?

Daycare drop off and pickup works with my work schedule, not the other way around. I Drop off at 7:45 and pickup at 4:15. Hub puts older kid on bus in AM

amother

↑ RosePink

Yesterday at 9:04 am

WhereIsMyPhone wrote:

Gotcha. Genuinely curious; for women who truly work full time, how do you do daycare pickup, taking kids off the bus etc?

DH takes them all to school and picks them up. This has only been possible this year, now that all the kids are at the same building. In past years, one of us would do school dropoff and the other would do daycare dropoff.

amother

↑ Cinnamon

Yesterday at 9:09 am

WhereIsMyPhone wrote:

Gotcha. Genuinely curious; for women who truly work full time, how do you do daycare pickup, taking kids off the bus etc?

So I put my kids on the bus in the morning and head to work. After school they take the bus to a babysitter and I pick them up from there after work.

amother

Mauve

Yesterday at 9:14 am

Wake up 7
Wash up/work out until 8 (with interruptions every 2 minutes cuz the kids wake up sometime then)
8-9 get dressed, kids dressed, breakfast and out of the house
9:30/10 get to work
4 leave work get the kids
4-5 make a grocery stop/run an errand with kids
5-7 supper, bath, bedtime.
7-8 finish making parents supper (kids are impossible eaters) and eat
8-10 prep breakfast, lunch and supper for everyone for next day
10-11 get something else done (organize cloths, make a grocery list, some emails, etc) and shower
11-11:30 chill in bed
11:30/12 asleep
Lucky if I sleep the night, depending on the seasons someone’s usually up and needing me

Gebentched1

Yesterday at 3:21 pm

amother Canary wrote:

I can't function on so little sleep. By 9pm, I'm drained. If I stay up to 11ish, reading or watching a show, I'll be tired the next day and lag. Worth it but rare. I prefer staying up late on weekends and being functional during the week when I'm on and expected to human.

Same! As I get older, my ability to function on less than 8 hours of sleep seems to be dwindling.

Lack of sleep effects everyrhing from my mood, ability to focus at work, how I physically feel, and even weight loss. (I lose weight faster when we'll rested)

amother

↑ Olive

Yesterday at 11:10 pm

amother Sunflower wrote:

Are you not exhausted??
I could never do that I only work a few hours a day and take a nap by day.and sleep much more at night and do much less etc..

You need to nap every single day just to make it through? That seems atypical to me and I’d worry about your health

amother

↑ White

Today at 2:50 am

amother Sunflower wrote:

Are you not exhausted??
I could never do that I only work a few hours a day and take a nap by day.and sleep much more at night and do much less etc..

Sorry but that isn't typical. Adults in decent health shouldn't have to nap during the day if they get 7-8 hours at night. I don't get 8 hours so could totally take a nap but I am also getting like 6 hours and work FT.
Maybe if your job was in construction or extremely physically laborious?

But yeah I am exhausted. Sleep 6 hours, work 40 hours a week. Plus kids and household stuff...