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One Year of Encouraging Professionals to Work Part-time! For Me, It Started with a Baby.

Downsize Your 2080 is one year old! Photo by Carol (that’s me!) The anniversary of my first post, Want to Downsize Your Work Year? Read These Non-monetary Considerations, was actually a few weeks ago but I was too busy to announce it. With less than two dozen posts on my site, I had traveled to Orlando to attend FinCon18, a conference where personal finance bloggers, authors, media types, and representatives from finance-related companies meet to get giddy over things like...

Part-Time Professionals with Benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO)

Employee uses of paid time off vary widely from travel to caregiving to medical appointments, and you should know that part-time professionals may qualify for this valued employee benefit too. Photo by Carol. Welcome to part four in my series Want to Downsize Your Work Year? Links to all articles in this series are provided at the end of this post. Are you transitioning toward retirement? Financially independent but still enjoy working to engage your brain? Wanting more time at...

What is 2080?

52 weeks in a year multiplied by 40 hours in a professional work week equals 2,080 hours in a professional work year.

I'm Carol, and I downsized my 2,080 back in the 1990s. That means I switched to a part-time work schedule and never looked back.

Do you love family time AND your career? Do you need to work less to free up time to pursue more education? Do you work in addition to serving a loved one as a caregiver? Are you seeking to better balance work and life?

Have you considered reducing your schedule to part-time? Have any questions? Send me a comment via the Contact Me tab.

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