How did the ease of taking time off for a child's cold change after switching from a full-time employee to a part-timer?

Hello, I'm Zawazawa Mama.

Currently, I have quit my short-time full-time job and am working 3-4 shifts a week instead.

Just when I thought I was getting used to my new workplace... a month later.
It happened, as expected.

👦 Younger brother gets a fever
↓
👧 Older sister gets a fever a few days later

A perfect staggered cold relay.

As a result, there were about 3 days I couldn't go to work.

When I quit being a full-time employee and switched to part-time,
honestly, I thought this:

If I'm a part-timer, there's someone to cover for me, so it's easier to take time off than when I was a company employee, right?

But, once I actually started working...

This is not as easy as I thought.

Finding someone to cover my shift is,
in the first place, difficult when there's a labor shortage.

Moreover,
if a replacement isn't found,
the burden falls on the person in charge.

And this is something I quietly worry about.

📱 "What time should I contact them to say I'm taking the day off?"

Truthfully,
I want to wait and see until the very last minute.

But,
considering the person who has to cover for me,

it's better to contact them and make a decision early.

After working there,
I finally understood how difficult it is.

By the way,
when I was a short-time full-time employee, it was like this👇

🌙 Child gets a fever at night
↓
☀ Chat & email the office around 8 AM
↓
🏥 Go to the hospital in the morning
↓
💻 Adjust with telework in the afternoon

If there were no client visits,
I would participate in meetings online.

Looking back now,
I realized that I was actually able to manage my work surprisingly well.

Of course, there were times when I had to finish work

🍚 after serving dinner to my children
😴 or after putting them to bed.

…but I did have to do that sometimes.

And, one more thing I realized.

I have always been

the type who is "not good at asking others to do my work."

I was curious, so
I even ran a poll on Threads.

"When your child has a fever,
what do part-time workers do?"

And the results were...

Surprisingly,
about half of the people take the day off without finding someone to cover their shift.

(*However, the sample size is small and still under investigation...)

By the way, the way Threads polls work is that
they are randomly shown not just to followers,
but also to people who have searched for or liked related posts in the past.

In the end, this is what I thought.

The difficulty of taking time off for a child's cold

is not that different between full-time and part-time work,

and it might just be a matter of having a "personality that takes on too much responsibility."

When you think about it that way... after all

💻 A job that allows working from home?
📱 A workplace that isn't understaffed?
🧠 Correcting the habit of thinking that I can't ask anyone for help?

Still,

Zawa-mama's
search for a way to work seems like it will continue.

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