Why the hell do I have to pick?
A job AND a business. On purpose.
A community for people building an AND career: a business of their own, alongside a permanent part-time role they love, or are looking for. Openly, and for the long haul.
Free. No selling. Just the people who get it.
Making people pick a lane is such a waste.
Running a business doesn't make you anti-job. Taking a job doesn't mean your business is failing. You can just like both sides of the coin.
Option one
Full-time job, secret hustle
Building in the evenings. Never mentioning it at work. Exhausted on both fronts.
Option two
Quit everything and jump
Burning savings, taking on debt, and making every creative decision with one eye on the mortgage.
Option three
The AND career
A permanent part-time role gives you a team, real problems to solve and breathing space from constant selling. What you learn there feeds your business, and your business feeds it right back.
This is for you if…
It's not about the hours you work. It's about what you're building with the rest of them.
- You're building something of your own. A business, a product, a practice, a launch you can't stop thinking about.
- You want a job too. Not fractional, not freelance: a permanent seat on the team, the routine, getting properly stuck into one business. It's not the thing you're escaping. It's half the point.
- You've got the role, or you're looking for it. Already two, three or four days somewhere? Brilliant. Still hunting for a part-time role that welcomes your business? You're exactly who this is for.
- You want to be open about it. You're done with the secret squirrel act and want employers who see it as a strength.
What we do together
Share the hard bits
Contract clauses, conflicts of interest, energy, guilt, and the week where both sides want everything.
Celebrate the good bits
Launches, first clients, and the days the two worlds make each other better.
Shift the narrative
Stories and evidence that help more employers see part-time, founder-minded people as an asset, not a flight risk.
Learn the how
How to raise it from the first application, what to put in writing, and how to split a week without splitting yourself.
For employers
Part-time hours. Founder-level thinking.
Full-time doesn't guarantee full commitment. Part-time doesn't mean half-hearted. And this isn't a fractional hire. It's a permanent member of your team, on purpose.
Someone running their own business already knows what it costs to win a client, protect cash and make a decision with no one to hand it to. Hire them openly and you get that thinking inside your business, not someone waiting to leave.
Already working this way, or open to it? Join the movement.
"I was open about my business from the very first application and the very first interview. It's in my contract. They get a founder's view of their business four days a week."
Hi, I'm Laura. My business took off, so I got a job.
On purpose. I missed the routine, the team, getting properly stuck into one business. And the company, honestly.
I was open from my very first application and interview that I'd keep running The Ops House. They were totally fine with it. Now I run operations for a brilliant health data science business, and keep growing my own alongside it.
What I learn in the job makes me better at my business. What I learn in my business makes me better at the job. That's the AND.
Every time I talk about it, people tell me they thought they had to keep it quiet. You don't.
The AND loop
Each side makes me better at the other.
This is what it actually looks like in my week. None of it is planned. It's osmosis, both ways.
- The whole picture. Running my own business taught me ops is never just ops. It's sales, commercial, finance, people, marketing, tech and AI, all at once. I bring that to every decision at work.
- Confidence to act. I can see a problem from the employee's side and the founder's side, so I raise it, solve it and get on with it.
- Systems, rescaled. The processes I build at work become smaller, sharper versions for my clients.
- Real tools, really used. I'd never touched Monday.com. Now I know exactly when a client would get value from it, and how to set it up.
- Inside knowledge. My clients sell into small businesses. I can tell them what it actually feels like on the other side of the table.
Anyone else like this? Embrace the AND.
Join the list for the first community gatherings, stories from people doing it, and a growing movement of employers who get it.
Or come and say hello on Instagram: @parttimeonpurpose