Parents who are home by 5-6pm from work - what do you do?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
|
I am constantly surprised when people post here that both spouses are home by 5:30-6:30pm from work. What work do you do? Do you have a very short commute?
I work from home so I am always home but my dh is rarely home before 7:30-8pm. He usually huddled home to see the kids and help put them to bed and then logs in again after they go to sleep. We live about 12 miles from the city (where dh works) so his commute is around 30-45 minutes depending on traffic. |
Anonymous
|
What do you do that you get to work from home full time?
To answer your question, I’m a lawyer who “mommytracked” herself into a crappy position that lets me leave the office at a regular time. |
Anonymous
| DH is a fed and works 7 to 3. He does any extra work from home in the evening. I work for a nonprofit and work 9:30 to 4:30 and a few days from home. We live only a couple of miles from the DC line, so commute is shorter depending on time. |
Anonymous
|
What does your husband do? I'm usually home by 530 and my husband comes in at 7.we both have extremely long commutes also but work from home occasionally. I also sometimes loginafter the kids are sleeping or during a playdate.
I'm home by 530 which hasn't been great for me career wise. I feel I decided to have a kid so I need to be there for him. I feel I'll never regret a job but would regret not spending enough time with my kid. |
Anonymous
|
DH is home by 5:45 - sometimes earlier. He’s the PI of a government research lab.He’s in the office by 7:45am, sometimes earlier and sometimes works weekends, but rarely stays late.
I WAH 3 days a week. The other two I don’t get home until 6:45, but I have an awful commute. If I need to though I could leave at 4 and either come in early or make the hours up at night. Flexible NGO. |
Anonymous
| Fed. I work 5 minutes away. 7 if I hit all red lights. |
Anonymous
| your husband should try to adjust his hours. |
Anonymous
| Dh is home by 6pm usually. But he leaves for work at 6:00am, so it’s not like it’s a short day. |
Anonymous
| To some extent I think you do it by doing it, because it's your priority and you're willing to do whatever you need to to be home then, even if it means logging on for longer later. I mean, if something happened to you, God forbid, DH would find a way to pick the kids up from daycare. |
Anonymous
| I work at a tiny tech startup and have built up the credibility/goodwill to leave at 4. DH is a director at a Fortune 500 and he leaves at 5 and has a 15 min commute. |
Anonymous
| Go for a run, work out, go and coach kids’ sports teams, go to dinner. Depends on the night. |
Anonymous
Wow director leaving at 5pm is impressive. What industry? |
Anonymous
|
We are both dod contractors for different organizations. I'm management and he's not. He leaves for work at 5 am to get to the office before 6 (30 min commute) he does pickup at 4:30.
I do drop off and we live less than 2 miles from my office and daycare is on the way. Pretty much why I'm still at the same company a decade later. Dd gets up at 6 and I have 2 hrs with her before drop off and get home by 5 without errands. I work later a day a week and on phone and laptop if need be past bedtime. |
Anonymous
| Agree that your DH should attempt to change his hours. I have a hell commute (annandale to bethesda) and I shifted my hours so that I am home by 4:30 to meet my son at the bus stop at 4:45. It's great! And my DH works from home, so we are generally both there (tho he is still online at that time.) |
Anonymous
| I wake up at 5 to get to work by 6 and leave at 3. I typically get home by 3:50. It’s a grind, that’s for sure!! |