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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in North Arlington, and our local elementary starts at 9 AM. We are older parents in our 50s, and we both work so I go to work in person and dress business casual.

When I’m walking to drop off, I often see father’s dropping off their kids, and they are dressed in shorts and sweats and T-shirts, but they are younger like in their 30s early 40s.

Does everyone have a work at home job now except me? I thought we had RTO happening, or these dad’s going to work late after going home and changing first and getting there at like 930/10?

Our neighborhood is very expensive, I did not know they were that many jobs that paid that well to stay home in your sweats! Except maybe tech, but I am in tech and I’ve never met anyone else in our school that is in tech.

I guess  they’re all in sales?
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MYOB.

My DH travels constantly (a lot international) for work and works at night and some weekends, so yeah, he does drop off occasionally in sweats.  He usually will either have gone for a workout or have a workout after drop off (our school starts earlier).  Some days he drops off in a suit, other days business casual.  When he is home he is really engaged with our kids and needs to get exercise in.  Why shouldn't he be able to do it if he flew to a city in Asia Saturday, spent a week there working and flew back the following Saturday/Sunday?  That means he is working two weekends but people like you don't see that.

I have a neighbor who gets up at 3AM because he has to be up in time in India.  He works until 7AM, does breakfast and drops his kids then works hours for those in the US.  His weekends are all over the place, I saw him Saturday at 5PM and he was exhausted.  He takes lots of naps and is clearly struggling, but was laid off and needed a job (he has an MD, PhD btw).

I work PT from home and sometimes drop off but do pickup.  I wake up early for Europe or Middle Eastern time frame then work a few hours in the day.  [/quote]

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