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Hi all,
Does your organization have a good work-life balance, especially for IDs? Or do you know any such organisation? Currently I am working for more than 12 hours a day. I am a mother of one year old, hence, want to switch to the organization, which has less work pressure.
Wil be grateful to you for the suggestions. Accenture Cognizant MindTickle Encora IBM Infosys
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It’s hard to overstate how much harder this job is with a baby.
A lot harder since there are more windows in the morning/evening/weekends where I am truly out of pocket, but also has forced me to set better boundaries.
Subject Expert
Totally agree with this. It’s definitely much harder but I’ve also gotten much better about protecting my personal time.
Echoing everyone else, significantly harder. Everyday I question whether this job is worth sacrificing time with my kids.
So much harder. I have a lot of help but there are so many evenings I can’t see my baby and my mental health issues are worse.
Coach
It's much harder, but also doable if you work with a team that will support holding your boundaries. I know I'm very lucky to have this, but the partners I work with know that I am absolutely not available for calls and will only respond to emails as I'm able from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. I'll wake up early and stay up after my child goes down to get work done, but 110% will not compromise waking time with them.
So it is definitely hard, but the mental load of the job became easier. Before my kid, all I did was work and take bougie vacations and that was pretty much my identity. So I cared a lot and would take it a little too seriously and just get wrapped up in the whole lifestyle.
My world is so much bigger and richer than that now that I am a mom. It’s just a job now albeit an intense one.
Feel the same. It adds perspective.
Enthusiast
I have an infant at home and it’s so much harder than it was pre baby. I’m likely going to move in house in the next few months, in large part for the more predictable schedule.
I would add that if one parent stays at home it’s probably easier, but my spouse and I both work and would go stir crazy as a stay at home parent.
Reading this on parental leave like 😬😬
Honestly I was expecting to open this and see people say it wasn’t harder, but I’m so glad to see I was wrong. I have a 20 month old and boy is this job difficult while trying to remain a primary parent.
Agree work is harder to balance but nothing helps me reset after a long day more than being with my kids
Mentor
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It’s much harder.
It’s so much harder. If you think the job is hard now, wait until you see what it’s like when you have hard stops every day.
Enthusiast
A2 wow, that is an amazing benefit
A lot harder. The other associates that I know that seem to be handling it better are the ones with partners who are fully committed to (and enjoy) the stay at home life and have family support and/or nannies.
Harder, but not insane. My wife works part time, but it's her job that needs to be flexible when things come up (snow days, sick kids). So take that into account for my experience
Intensely harder. I waited until I made partner, and I am almost positive I wouldn’t have had I had kids earlier.
That said, I’ve heard it gets easier. I can see how if my youngest was over three it would become easier. But the zero-three range is just awful when it comes to trying to do this job.
Wouldn’t trade it for the world though, my daughters are my life.
It’s definitely harder especially if you have an infant and pumping milk at work and raising other children.