Being fully checked out after work is hard
I get home by 4:30 most days and I should be PRESENT, right? But my brain is mush. I'm not working anymore but I'm scrolling my phone, half-listening to my kids tell me about their
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Balancing work, family, and the mental load.
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I get home by 4:30 most days and I should be PRESENT, right? But my brain is mush. I'm not working anymore but I'm scrolling my phone, half-listening to my kids tell me about their
Two weeks in and honestly, best decision I've made since becoming a dad. Working 4 days a week, Fridays with the kids now. Yeah, money is tighter but my oldest (7) actually remembe
Just want to recommend. If you work in tech/software and your company has flexible hours, actually USE them. Don't just assume you have to be in from 9-5. I shifted to 7am-3pm so
Remember me from 6 months ago asking if anyone had switched careers after kids? Well I did it. Took a teaching job at a local high school that pays about 40% less than my finance g
Just got the quote for our second kid starting in Sept and I'm actually sitting in my car at work writing this because I'm too embarrassed to show my wife in person. $2,400/month f
FINALLY. Been at this company 4 years and they just updated their policy. My third kid is due in 2 months and I'll actually get to take real time, not just burning through PTO. Pla
We're looking at $2,400/month for 3-year-old and $2,100 for before/after for the kindergartener. That's $4,500 a month. Our household income is like $180k combined and this feels i
Just got back to work after 6 weeks with my newborn (baby #2) and honestly I'm already missing it. The first few weeks were chaotic - mom was freaking out, I had no idea what I was
I'm not proud of it but I mark myself as in meetings when I'm actually at my son's soccer practice. My company says they're "flexible" but there's definitely a culture of 60-hour w
So I've been trying to do my job from home while my son naps and after bedtime, but our daycare is closed Wednesdays for staff training. Yesterday I had back-to-back client calls s
Real question: have any of you found companies that genuinely don't make you feel like garbage for having parental responsibilities? Like where "my kid is sick and I need to leave"
OK so I sell custom wood signs on Etsy. Started 4 months ago as a joke basically. Spend like 90 minutes 3-4 nights a week in the garage after my kids are asleep doing the work. Fi
Quick update for anyone who read my post last year about starting freelance writing on nights/weekends. I'm now pulling in $800-1200/month consistently, which doesn't sound like mu
We keep double-booking ourselves because we're using different systems (she's iCal, I'm Google). Need something that actually syncs and maybe lets us see each other's work availabi
I pick up my kids at 5:45pm. They want my attention immediately. I'm exhausted. Brain is fried. All I want to do is zone out with my phone but they're asking me to play with them,
Started freelancing on weekends to save for a house down payment. Seemed simple - 5 hours Saturday/Sunday. But now I'm doing it at night after the kids are asleep and it's like...
Got the senior role I've been gunning for, but it's 2 weeks/month travel. My youngest starts kindergarten in August. I keep telling myself the money is worth it, the prestige, the
Title bump, 15% raise, but definitely more hours expected. My twins just turned 6 and are actually at fun ages now - they remember stuff I do with them, we can have conversations,
I've tried Google Calendar blocking, Toggl, RescueTime, all that stuff. The problem is I block the time but then something "urgent" comes up and I move it anyway. Looking for some
Anyone else WFH with a young kid in the house? My son just turned 4 and daycare is $2,100/month so we pulled him out for summer. I thought I'd "just manage" but I'm losing it. Had