Working Away From Family

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    So here we are, doing all this hard thinking and agonising for you and you're just wasting our time? You've let yourself down, your family down, but most of all you've let us down.

    You b@stard.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    That's me. No doubt there'll be another change soon though, there's 3 females involved here!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Three females - good luck with that one. I think the Chinese have the best idea. One child only, and if it's a girl abandon it in a box. :oops: :oops: :oops:
  • dave in swansea
    dave in swansea Posts: 129
    Hi Pross.
    Pm sent as I think we have worked together before.
    I have worked away at times over the years, and it is hard on the family. Usually it has been for finite periods of time and they do cope. However now after redundancy last summer I am having to chase the work where available. Currently commuting 1150 miles a week and it gets tiring. I will stay away some nights but you can't beat getting home.
    Construction industry in south wales is still very quiet and not many vacancies.
    Dave.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    johnfinch wrote:
    Three females - good luck with that one. I think the Chinese have the best idea. One child only, and if it's a girl abandon it in a box. :oops: :oops: :oops:

    I'm used to it, I've got 4 sisters as well. The dog is even female as was the previous one and my daughter's 2 rabbits. At least the horse is male, apparently mares are more moody - who'd have thought it!
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Pross, knowing what you do for a living (same as what I used to do), if you could hand over the office-running responsibilities or share them with an up-and-coming member of staff, then you could comfortably do the technical side of the job from a home-office.

    Site visits would be the same as ever - invariably longer days than the usual.

    Good luck with whichever route you take.
    Ben

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  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    Three females - you'll be going back to Swansea and Cardiff shopping all the while.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    florerider wrote:
    Three females - you'll be going back to Swansea and Cardiff shopping all the while.

    Studies have shown that 3 or more women in one household will eventually synchronise their periods. Be warned, you may have to stay away for one week in 4 anyway.
    I have that to come but i might get a dog to re-dress the oestrogen/testosterone balance.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • dgstewart
    dgstewart Posts: 252
    Got to agree with a lot of the replies - it would be tough going, not only for you but probably for the wife. I know that my wife finds it very tough dealing with the two kids (5 and 4) on her own for days or weeks if I'm away for a long trip (not often though), as we have no family support within 100 miles. There's just a lot to deal with on a daily basis.

    Perhaps it's not so bad once the kids are older, but somehow I don't believe that - it's just different hassles and tantrums :-).
  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    Bit late into this one. I did this for almost a year, living in Leeds but working in/staying near Leicester before we moved. It was miserable. Although they can drive you mad, it makes you realise how much you miss the kids (and the wife obviously). And your weekend enjoyment is often weather dependent, so your plans to do something special can go down the drain quite easily.

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