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Career and Kids

October 5th, 2007

Responding to opinions about your work-family situation

The discussion at The Juggle the other day about “do your parents support your work-family choices?” kind of hit home with me.
While my parents are/were nothing but supportive, my dad did make a statement after I had my first child along the lines of, “Wow, the daycare is very good, I never thought you’d […]

By elizabeth -- 1 comment

December 12th, 2006

Importance of job location

My main office is 22 miles from my house according to Mapquest. That would mean that in a normal week I drive at least 220 miles. I hardly ever have an assignment closer to my house than our main office is.
My car gets approximately 30 miles per gallon which would mean that I […]

By mike -- 6 comments

November 30th, 2006

Greg Page of the Wiggles Retires

Greg Page of the Wiggles has left the band and if you don’t know that you need to read more b5media blogs.
He decided to step down because of the orthostatic intolerance he is suffering from.
I originally didn’t plan on writing anything about this because the kids are not huge Wiggles fans. The kids enjoy […]

By mike -- 8 comments

October 27th, 2006

Work schedule regularity

Yesterday, I had to watch the kids for a little bit in the morning which caused me to get to work a couple of hours late. Which also made me get home a couple of hours late. When I walked in the door, the family was just finishing dinner and we ran around […]

By mike -- 5 comments

October 20th, 2006

The Super Duper Long Drive to Work

Living in the suburbs and working as a consultant involves some fairly long commutes from time to time. I spent most of the first half of the year working for three different companies all in the same five mile radius about an hour commute from my house.
That puts a crimp in the old family time. […]

By mike -- 1 comment

October 18th, 2006

Miscellaneous news

During my recent illness, I forgot to mention some other new blogs in the b5media family that might be of interest to anybody reading this blog.
In the Family & Relationship category, please welcome Christina Zola of Solo Mother and Jay Allen of Parents Behaving Badly.
In the Science and Health, please welcome Angela White of Breastfeeding […]

By mike -- 1 comment