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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you to everyone for your input. I have accepted the job.

The company has said that I can do 30% - 40% travel and I will have flexibility to manage it. DH is scaling his travel back so that one of us will be at home. As a back up we are also getting a live in nanny so that the kids have a stable routine. We already have a cleaner and lawn service.

I have a lot of flexibility and so does DH when we are not travelling so one of us will be at home most of the time so Im hopeful that this will work out for us as a family.

As I have said before I took 5 years off from work when my kids were born as I felt that was the best thing for our family. I now feel confident that we are all in a position to cope with my stepping up at work. I feel lucky to have the option and I know that if this all falls apart I will step down from this.

Thanks once again - particularly to those of you who took the time to post thoughtful comments. 
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If it really works out this way, especially the part about DH scaling back and being home more, then this could be even better than the situation you have now. While you won't have a ton of family dinners, it sounds like there's the potential for you kids to get a good amount of time with both parents. I think that with a live-in nanny, you will both need to be diligent about not filling up your off-work hours with self-care things (gym, dinners with friends, salon, hobbies, classes, golf, sailing, whatever) and actually plan to spend most of that time with your kids while they still want to do that.[/quote]

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