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Um
Ok heres my background
I live in LA CA
I have a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Technology
Great with Customer Service
3 years of work experience in Desktop support
Have great skills with customers and Computer repair
I also did some office admin work during these jobs
Good fixing PCS routers printers network issues
Great with outlook and IP addresses
Active directory
Some web programming
I also taught kids as a part job in college for 6 months
People say im good with computers customers and kids
Keep an eye out for an IT position with your local city/county government.
The way I see it, the higher the education level, the better your chances are of finding something that meets what you seek.
You already have the education so everything suggested by the others looks quite within your reach.
I too could go for those hours as well, but just working nights and knowing I'll be working the same set days regardless of weekends included or not.
But I feel with my HS education level, I'm pretty much stuck on the irritability train until I get my truck paid off.
Once that happens, I'll take a pay cut in a heartbeat just for some set-days/nights.
Like some others said try banking. A teller position would not pay that high, but back office support (IT, online banking, fraud) or branch manager might. My husband makes on the higher end of your scale with bonuses and has amazing benefits (22 days off/PTO, 10 holidays, 100% matching on 401k up to 10%, quarterly bonus, pension, all health/dental/vision for the whole family paid for.) He works 8am-4pm most days. One Saturday a month 8am-12pm. The only thing is you may need to start lower with no banking experience.
Omg that would be awesome!! Which bank does he work at and what's his title??
State or Federal government job. DH works for the federal government and they have set working hours, in at 7am, out at 3:30/3:45pm. In all of his years there he has worked maybe 3 Saturdays and that was only 2-3 hours. He started off making low, really low. Now he is well above your range.
Conversely, I work for a bank. It's true that typically you would work M-F if you're not tied to a banking center location. Even if you are a teller or personal banker, most banks close by 1 on Saturday (some banks stay open until 3, depending on the company. Just stay out of sales related groups in a bank and you will be able to have the weekends to yourself just fine.
It's true that a lot of jobs now require weekend time even if it's not mandated. Sometimes just to catch up, you're either working late or working over the weekend. Try to pick jobs where they don't give you a laptop or company phone. Then there is even less chance of working after hours.
Also, someone mentioned IT for a bank. Be very careful of what division you work for and in what capacity. Any migrations or outages or updates will happen outside of banking hours. I see emails come across all the time about downtimes during midnight hours or 2am Sunday morning. When I was in IT I avoided those jobs like the plague.
State or Federal government job. DH works for the federal government and they have set working hours, in at 7am, out at 3:30/3:45pm. In all of his years there he has worked maybe 3 Saturdays and that was only 2-3 hours. He started off making low, really low. Now he is well above your range.
Conversely, I work for a bank. It's true that typically you would work M-F if you're not tied to a banking center location. Even if you are a teller or personal banker, most banks close by 1 on Saturday (some banks stay open until 3, depending on the company. Just stay out of sales related groups in a bank and you will be able to have the weekends to yourself just fine..
How can you get those type of jobs?? Any specific degree required? Please help out! No bank teller please my sister is and she hates standing on her feet all day long and low pay.
Keep an eye out for an IT position with your local city/county government.
I agree. Look specifically in the court system. LA has huge courts at many levels and they keep very simple hours. State job benefits aren't what they used to be, but they're still better than some. I have a relative who works for a judge and she works 8 to 4, has a lunch break, and gets far more holidays than I ever had in corporate jobs. I asked her why she was off one day and she replied, "It's Flag Day. The court house is closed on Flag Day."
I would argue some government work but it can depend. I can tell you that frankly these days fewer people will have time off technically due to technology. These days with smartphones the office follows you. It isn't that hard to use office apps on a phone. Recently Google created the ability to edit office apps WITHIN Gmail. Local government as least where I am generally has various committee meetings that act as overseers that meet usually on a monthly if not weekly basis, it would foolish to be in government and not attend or at least not examine the results of meetings.
Banks might have fixed hours to a point but frankly bank branches are gradually declining thanks to online banking and ATM's and the use of store cards
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jobs in doctors offices (pediatricians office if you like kids), real estate offices, government jobs, MOST office jobs, etc..
You sound like you are qualified for this. I find it funny that a lot inexperienced young people, bored housewives, etc, also want these hours. I used to work in retail, and I cannot tell you how many people we went through because they had to work odd hours.
I'll never forget one older guy showing up where I worked that thought it would be great to work there because "I'd get to work with tools all day" um we don't work with them we sell them, huge difference. He wanted 8-5 and was pretty much just escorted out.
I agree. Look specifically in the court system. LA has huge courts at many levels and they keep very simple hours. State job benefits aren't what they used to be, but they're still better than some. I have a relative who works for a judge and she works 8 to 4, has a lunch break, and gets far more holidays than I ever had in corporate jobs. I asked her why she was off one day and she replied, "It's Flag Day. The court house is closed on Flag Day."
Seriously.
This, but be careful OP. IT for Courts may entail an on call rotation. Judges and executive staff are usually able to access their desktops via VPN or emails from an issued Smartphone device. And don't be surprised at who is calling you at 11pm on Saturday night because they can't remote into their machine at work, or their device isn't syncing with the Exchange Server, so they're not getting emails. Or they don't remember how to reset their device when it freezes up, or they lock up their passwords.
Also agree with what a previous poster said about mass deployments of either hardware/software, upgrades and patch deployment on the weekends, Windows updates at 6am on Sunday mornings, etc
However, some of the more clerk-like positions or data entry are more of an 6-3, 7-4, 8-5 etc
Good luck OP I hope you find a job that lets you spend time with your kids
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