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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think those hours are anything unusual for people with commutes. I leave at 6:40 and get home around 6pm most days. Unfortunately you are are older parent and the grind takes its toll as you age. [/quote]

I am 49 and my DH is 51.  While we knew plenty of people who travelled/commuted a ton in the early and even mid years of our careers, but now, I am struggling to think of anyone who keeps these hours everyday out of the house.  Once you hit middle age + pandemic/WFH, no, I don't think its usual for a 50 y/o to do this EVERYDAY.[/quote]

I do it everyday and so do most people I know. These are the hours of parents who need to drop their kids off at daycare, go to work and then pick the kids up. Now so many people work from home that this seems unusual but it isn’t for people who have to work in person. [/quote]

How old are you?  How many years have you been working?  How old are your kids?  This is a tween/teen thread and you are talking about daycare.[/quote]

I'm 46. I've been leaving my home at 6:40 to get to work by 7:30 since I was 25 years old. I'm a teacher. I teach until 2:30 and then work our school's aftercare program until 5:00. I leave school then and pick up my 16 yr and 14 yr old at school (or from their sport's practice) around 5:30/6pm. When the kids were younger, I'd drop them off at daycare at 7am and pick them up around 5:30pm. Now, it's school. I've got 4 more years until my youngest goes to college and then I can leave my school at 5pm and go straight home.

Plenty of people do this. Just because a lot of people now work from home doesn't mean everyone does. [/quote]

There is not really a nice way to say it, so here goes.  People with choices and career capital just don't stay out of the house everyday like that as they get older.  OP cannot keep up with her current life, so I really think she has to look at how she works. Maybe going to the doctor is fine but really, sometimes we just put unreasonable demands on ourselves and act like it's all normal.   It's kind of amazing to me that some people's first thought is that it's normal to be out of the house 5 days a week for 12 hours a day for an entire working life.[/quote]

DP, I wanted to add to this that most people I know l with one parent in the office for much of the day also have a SAH, WAH, or part time/flexible parent. I don’t know anyone really with 2 commuting full time parents except for 1 family and they only have 1 kid *and* nearby family help for the long days. [/quote]

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