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📣 readonthegoapp

Would you switch from full time to part time if you could?


You'd have to take a 50% pay cut for going from ~40 hrs/wk to ~20 hrs/wk, and you can discuss whether you would need to be able to keep your health benefits or not, etc.

I think there are plenty of pluses and minuses on various levels, but I'm mostly curious if _you_ would do this right now, if you were benevolent dictator of your own life, and someone asks this question to you today, and you have 24 hours to make a decision.

Thanks.

  👤 paulrpotts Accepted Answer ✓
No, because I couldn't afford to meet my family's basic monthly expenses after that much of a pay cut. If the pay cut and insurance were not an issue, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

For a while in 2000 I went to six hours a day, paid purely hourly, for some audio driver and desktop application development, for a company that made audio interfaces. It was great, actually. I'd show up fully energized to work, put in a _focused_ six hours, get a lot done, and leave. I was single and didn't need to earn that much to meet my needs. It was not sustainable long-term because of the lack of health insurance, but everything else about it was great.