I currently have a full time professional job that I'm not enjoying that much. As I mentioned in another thread, I have enough saved up for FIRE, and a husband who also has a full time professional job. However, going down to one salary (I'm only 57 so drawing on my retirement accounts won't happen for a while) makes him uncomfortable even though we can do it with only a little belt-tightening. I respect him and don't want my comfort to increase his DIScomfort so I'm playing around with the idea of quitting my full time job and just working part time.

I'm in the USA, where it seems to be "not done" to have part time professional jobs. Most employers only hire full time people. Aside from a regular job search, is there anything I can do to find those rare companies that hire part timers? I have a background in IT, all aspects of software development although my programming skills are super rusty (and I don't really want to get back into that). What are the chances I can find a company that wants to hire for pregnancy coverage or job sharing or even just a part timer because that's all they need?

(I'm very sure that my current employer is one of those full-time-only gigs. Especially as we do government contracting and I think it's written into the contract that they have X number of full time people and no part timers working on the contract.)