How Many Hours do You Work?

[bananas]

80-90.

I do work a second evening job in addition to doing daycare 6x per week for 11/12 hour days.

My husband works about the same hours at his job....and we're still struggling

[MCC]

I have staff, so my answer is different.

I am open 45 hours a week.

I do NOTHING daycare related outside of those hours.

I work from 8:15-9am, then my staff runs 9-11. Then I work with them 11-1:30. Then I go down for pick up around 4. My daycare space is separate from my living space, so I'm home, but not involved. I get household chores done, meal planning, order groceries, work on marketing etc. during the time my staff is running.

My actual involvement with the kids and daycare business is about 15-20 hours a week.

My dream when I opened this was to OWN a daycare, and have it run externally of myself. I am getting very close to that. happyface

[Christina72684]

I have employees due to ratio needs so I don't have to work open to close every day (7:00-5:30). Most weeks I work 40 hours with the kids but am still able to leave work early 2-3x a week to work out or do the grocery shopping. Otherwise I only spend a couple of hours on Saturday mornings doing daycare related things.

I have an almost 1yr old and a 3.5yr old so I don't want to put in a lot of extra hours bc evenings and weekends are family time. I should put in more hours and get organized better, but honestly I'm just too tired at the end of the day/week.

BTW TGIF!

[Christina72684]

I have staff, so my answer is different.

I am open 45 hours a week.

I do NOTHING daycare related outside of those hours.

I work from 8:15-9am, then my staff runs 9-11. Then I work with them 11-1:30. Then I go down for pick up around 4. My daycare space is separate from my living space, so I'm home, but not involved. I get household chores done, meal planning, order groceries, work on marketing etc. during the time my staff is running.

My actual involvement with the kids and daycare business is about 15-20 hours a week.

My dream when I opened this was to OWN a daycare, and have it run externally of myself. I am getting very close to that. happyface

That's my dream too! Actually once my kids are in school I wouldn't mind going back to teaching (I wanted to stay home with them and couldn't find a job before opening the daycare) and then having employees I trusted to work the daycare. That double income would be very nice!

[MCC]

That's my dream too! Actually once my kids are in school I wouldn't mind going back to teaching (I wanted to stay home with them and couldn't find a job before opening the daycare) and then having employees I trusted to work the daycare. That double income would be very nice!

Good luck to you!

I've thought about doing something else as well with my extra time. I used to be a flight attendant, and I would LOVE to go back and do that while the daycare runs back home. I'm just waiting on a special permit to come through for 5 extra spots, at that point I'll be able to hire one more full time assistant, and I'll be on my way.

[Rachel]

I am opened 47.5 hours per week (Sunday - Thursday, 7 - 4:30). I don't do a huge amount after hours, but I consider myself working 50 hours because of the shopping, cleaning up, little bit of prepping I do after hours, etc.

[Crazy8]

I used to do a lot more "after hours" prep work than I do now. I have kids about 47.5 hours a week (open 7:30am-5pm) and do about a half hour of clean up per night. That's about it. Anything else gets done during nap time.

[mls620]

60 hours a week.

[daycare]

My average last year was 71 hours a week. YUP you read that right. When I did the break down of how much I make and the hours I put in to make my preschool program the best I knew how, I wanted to cry......lets just say I would make better money picking fruit..................

[tntsmom]

I work from 5:45 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. so basically day care hours 60 + about 5 hrs a week cleaning toys, planning meals and activities.

[daycarediva]

I work 55 hours per week.

I do not do anything work related outside of work.

Other than grocery shopping but I do daycare grocery shopping when I'm shopping for home too.

I made it a personal rule years ago to NEVER do anything daycare related outside of daycare.

It was kind of hard at first. There were so many things that needing doing that I thought it would be impossible to separate myself from daycare.

But what I did was eliminate certain things for the first few weeks, then added more things until eventually, I am no longer doing anything daycare related on my off time.

It really should be like that.

There are VERY few professions out there that are as time consuming as child care but I've learned that is only true is you let it be.

This is what I do now. Aside from interviews which I don't like to conduct during daycare hours and training (which I do my best to complete online during daycare hours/nap),

I used to spend soo much of MY time on daycare. Now I don't. I clean my daycare room Friday, I do all paperwork, and lesson plans during free play and nap.

[Meyou]

I work 50 hours per week sometimes less with early pickups. I do everything including most of my daily household cleaning and cooking during daycare hours. I grocery shop for the daycare with my regular groceries on Saturday and only shop once per week.

Other than a deep cleaning and reorganization of the playroom 4 times per year I do nothing daycare related outside of work. Well, I do yard sale for new toys on the weekends but I leave my kids at home so that's practically a vacation. ::

[DaveA]

Open 55 hours a week. During the school year, I try really hard to not put any "off hours" in. I do shopping for daycare needs with the kids, setup/cleanup is part of our routine, lesson prep & paperwork is done during naptime, etc. Aside from prospective interviews (which I do in the evening so my wife is there) I keep them separate otherwise I'd never let it go at the end of the day. Plus I have a craft business that need 10-20 hours a week attention, so I have to squeeze that in.

During the summer I have to add a few hours a week because I have too many kids to transport, so shopping is done in the evening and I don't have a naptime to catch up on stuff. Probably 5 hours/ week or so.

[lovemykidstoo]

I used to work 5 days a week/10 hr days, but it was just too much for me. NOw I work Monday through Thursday 10 hour days, so 40 hours a week. That is enough for me. I really dont' do too much out of those hours for Dc. It does grind me though when teachers complain about how much they work outside of hours because I know of so many ladies that have a daycare that work just as hard and don't have their summers off.