Part-Time Organizing

Many people start organizing on a part time basis for a variety of reasons:

1. Working a full time job and want to ease into new career
2. Other obligations such as children or aging parents
3. Just want to work part time – it’s a lifestyle job

Part-time would be considered less than 30 hours per week, including your desk time.
Recently a discussion on a new blog about organizing posed the question about whether it is possible to be an organizer part-time and my answer is YES.
Many commenting on the blog were mostly concerned about professionalism and not thinking about your job all day and night.

Read the post and comments HERE

But part-time does not mean unprofessional unless you act in an unprofessional way (even off duty).
And part-time does not mean you’re not thinking about business, you are just not doing the organizing or administrative or marketing tasks for as many hours as the full-timers.

When I began organizing I had 2 children under age 5 and I wanted to be home after school (and still do). I hired a sitter for 2 days a week and had darling husband home on weekends so I could ultimately work 4 days a week.  As the kids got older and went to school for longer hours, I added organizing hours into my schedule.

What do you think is a good way to set up part-time when first starting or for the whole career? What advice would you give to someone who wanted to start organizing on a part time basis?
Leave a comment please.

– Allison

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