Would you prefer to work part-time or job share or even take a year or two off from work if you believed it would not hurt your resume?

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Working part-time would be ideal for many people, so long as they could make enough money doing it. Employers do look down on that, though, just as they do for long employment gaps. I wish it weren’t so, but it is.

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