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ailbhe ([personal profile] ailbhe) wrote2010-06-04 05:38 pm
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The weekend has started!

How can I tell? The children are acting up trying to get a reaction from Rob, there are tantrums and crying, there's no way we can get dinner on time, and the house is already in worse shape than it was an hour ago when it was just me and the children.

Still, with the new job, all this may change.
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[identity profile] tiggsybabes.livejournal.com 2010-06-04 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds familiar :(
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[personal profile] ailbhe 2010-06-04 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The kids would like an instant switch from work-daddy to home-daddy. This doesn't happen. But it might well do with a more relaxing commute, ie not one including cycling in traffic!

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2010-06-04 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, definitely :) commuting can be very stressful indeed, especially after a long day at work

(Anonymous) 2010-06-05 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
We moved here when I was 6 months pregnant with E. C's decompression time during his commute was just one of the advantages, I found. When we were a 15 minute walk from work in Oxford, he'd get home and be very much still in work mode. After the drive or the train journey, he seemed like he'd had time to go over all his work stuff in his mind and start to relax, and could have normal conversations straightaway. Hope it works for Rob :)

Once he's well settled in there, is there any chance of any working from home? C does a day at home most weeks and has done since he had a CFS-y thing about 6 years ago, and that definitely helps him not collapse at the weekends too.

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[personal profile] ailbhe 2010-06-05 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Just over 4 years ago, Rob had a train and bus commute he used for reading, sleeping, whathaveyou. It worked brilliantly.
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