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We have two kids currently in daycare 4 days a week. Right now I drop the kids off and my partner picks them up. My partner is in the works of leaving his current employer and going somewhere else which long term will be great for our family but short term means more hours. This means he won’t be able to pick the kids up and with my commute I am unable to fit 8 hours of work between drop off and pick ups.

So we want to look into hiring extra help. We’d either need someone to come in the mornings at like 7 and get the kids up and ready for school, feed them breakfast, and then drop them off at daycare. Or someone to pick them up at daycare, bring them home, get them a snack and watch them t

Hi Everyone!

My company is requiring us to submit a formal request to work from home, they don't have the best track record on caring about employees standard of life. The request has to include an answer to the following questions. Any feedback to my potential responses would be greatly appreciated

1. Q: Why are requesting additional remote work flexibility?
   1. A: To maintain my current productivity and quality of work. My role requires documenting business challenges and goals, creating feedback pipelines and using critical thinking and analysis to define requirements that align with product strategy and provide effective solutions. This requires me to be detail-oriented, precise and

Had to turn down a job at a company I really wanted to work with because their health insurance employee cost for a family plan was abysmal. They cover the employee only plan but the family plan was 16k more a year than what I currently pay and they couldn't come up in salary to compensate for it. I knew my current employers health care coverage was on the good end, but I was hit with complete sticker shock at the 5x increase.

I have two small kids in daycare and 16k is how much it costs to send one of them for the year.

If we had universal health care, this wouldn't be an issue.

If we had more affordable child care, this wouldn't be such a concern.

Add on the mass shootings and SCOTUS d

So, I received an offer after a long interview process for a company I would really love to work for. The only problem is that they offered me a salary on the lower end of the range they originally advised.

I will be taking a pay cut leaving my current job. The opportunity is for a career shift with more potential for growth which I have been looking for, and it would get me out of a toxic work environment I am currently in.

My current employer is just poorly managed. Lots of favoritism and an old boy club atmosphere. I have a great relationship with my direct manager and despite those negatives it is a very stable/secure position/company which is making it hard to leave with two small c

I've made it through 4 rounds of interviews for a new opportunity and they are now asking me to provide references and I am unsure what to do. They want 3 references, 1 of which being a supervisor within the last 3 years.

I have been with my current employer for the last 9 years and the last 7 I have been with my current supervisor. My current supervisor knows that I have been unhappy (things outside their control) and has always been supportive of me pursuing opportunities in theory. Our relationship is good, but I am apprehensive of asking them to be a reference. I do think they would be an EXCELLENT reference and would speak high praises.

My current job has been my only experience post

Looking for insight on salary negotiations. I am nearing the end of a few interview cycles and am nervous about salary and benefit negotiations.

One of the positions I’ve applied for is for a nonprofit and they were upfront with their salary range and said there wouldn’t be room to negotiate because of nonprofit and funds. The bottom of the salary range is where I am at in my current job, but I also receive quarterly bonuses that adds a substantial amount to my income that I would be losing. The top of the salary range still wouldn’t match my salary plus bonus amount m, but there are other benefits they discussed as well as the organizational structure and room for growth that would make t

Any advice on proposing a PM role at your current job?

Background - I have worked at my company for the last 7 years as a Business Analyst. The last 3 years I have been working as the primary BA on our new CRM system. I've gone on MAT leave twice during this project and every time I come back management is desperate for me to clean up the mess they've made.

This application is my brain child, management even calls me the "Architect" of it. This last MAT leave when I came back they had made a complete reorg of how the teams for this new application were working. They brought on a bunch of new team members, and gave them a goal, but in doing so the overall vision and mission of the applicat

Anybody have recommendations for books that help with emotional responses?

I’ve never been big on self help books but I find that I need to work on my reactiveness. I tend to get frustrated when I perceive knowledge as being obvious and I let that bleed into the way I talk to people and it’s not okay.

All of my patience and calmness gets eaten up with my very young children, and this trait of mine is becoming more and more exacerbated. Perhaps therapy is the better answer but while I’m trying find the right fit I want to try out some books.

This March marked 9 years at my current company and 7 in my current role. I have two small children and the thought of applying to new jobs, the interview process, and adapting to a new work environment has given me so much anxiety over the past few years but I am at my breaking point. So I’ve just updated my resume and even freshened up my cover letter.

Applied to four new jobs tonight. Hopefully this enthusiasms stays. I refuse to reach my 10 year anniversary. I like my job but executive management and the culture of my company is garbage.

I am working through trying to figure out the cause of my 9 mo early morning wake ups (4-530am).

My question is, while you’re trying to figure out the cause what do you do when they wake up at 430 am? Desired wake time is 6am.

Low sleep drive at that time so CIO doesn’t seem to work. My LO doesn’t do well with check ins, so I’ve avoided it. When sick I’ve previously tried to nurse at that time and it’s 50/50. Sometimes LO goes back to sleep, other times not.

LO has slept through the night for months. But the last two we seem to be on a cycle of, one week early wake ups, one week sleep through. They do not wake any other time through the night. And go down independently for all naps a

Baby is 7 months old. Has been sleeping 7/730-6/630 since about 3 months. Baby can be put down awake and fall asleep independently for both naps and bedtimes. He does not use a bink and is breastfed. I’ve tried with the bink and he refuses. We’ve been doing scheduled naps for about two months instead of focusing on wake windows and it’s been great. About two weeks ago baby started refusing last nap of the day and then started waking up regularly at 5am. I decided I would work on adjusting LO to a 2 nap schedule. Almost two weeks in and it is not going well.

Ideal wake up is 630 so that’s what I’m basing this schedule off of.

Old schedule was l, wake up at 6:30. Wake windows 2.5/2/2.5/2.

I can’t believe my life right now. I was supposed to start back at work after 6 months of MAT leave the beginning of January. My husband and I ended up getting COVID and had to quarantine that first week. Our 6 month old and 2 year old never tested positive even though having symptoms and being with us the entire time.

So Wednesday of this week we find out my 6 month old was a close contact at daycare. Okay, means he has to test every day and as long as he’s negative with no symptoms he can go. On Friday, daycare messages me and lets me know he spit up quite a bit but otherwise he was fine and they were just letting me know. I thought it may have been that days worth of frozen breast milk

I’ve been on MAT leave since July. My 5 month old is supposed to start daycare Tuesday 1/4 with his sister and I’m supposed to return to work. After almost two years, it seems that we’ve finally caught Covid. Both kids have runny noses and a slight cough but are in happy spirits. My husbands starting to feel s little crappy with a sore throat and cough. And I’ve got on an off congestion and random coughing fits. We found out that my husbands siblings and mom all tested positive and we saw them on Christmas.

We can’t get a hold of any at home tests and our doctors office just recently decided they would no longer do COVID tests and would send everyone to their urgent care locations, which d

So I go back to work full time beginning of January. My LO will be 5 1/2 months. We’ve recently started trying to give him a bottle to get him used to it, and he keeps rejecting it. I am wondering if at this point I should just start trying (he’s 5 months now) with an open cup and get him using a straw cup instead.

I BF my oldest and she went back to daycare at 3 months with bottles no problem. Then Covid hit when she was 6 months and she was home with me until 10 months, and at that point she was already used to a straw cup for water. She refused taking a bottle and we just started putting her milk in the straw cup and she took to that no problem.

There’s a big difference between 5ish m