Working away from home

[chef]

Something that is fairly common in our line of work and yet it rarely comes up as a topic.

So, given it's Friday and most will be counting down the hours 'til they get the flight/train/drive back home. How do you / the other half cope with the fact that 4 nights a week you're away?

[cojak]

I try and negotiate working from home every Friday. It keeps working away more manageable...

[BoredBloke]

Working from home is not an option with this lot. So anything I have to do in the UK costs me a whole days pay.

[TheFaQQer]

It's a way of life - I've always spent lots of time travelling since MrsF and I got together 16 years ago. First I was at Uni and she was at home, then she was at uni and I was working, then she was home and I was working away....

Far from ideal, and I'd love a job near home or at home - sadly, they come up rarely round here. My children (despite the Sunday night guilt trip the elder one puts me through) accept this as well - if daddy doesn't go to work, we have no money. If we have no money, we can't buy things. Simples.

[northernladuk]

It's a way of life - I've always spent lots of time travelling since MrsF and I got together 16 years ago. First I was at Uni and she was at home, then she was at uni and I was working, then she was home and I was working away....

Far from ideal, and I'd love a job near home or at home - sadly, they come up rarely round here. My children (despite the Sunday night guilt trip the elder one puts me through) accept this as well - if daddy doesn't go to work, we have no money. If we have no money, we can't buy things. Simples.

Agreed with this. People live many different lifestyles and people survive single parenthood well enough so this lifestyle isn't the end of the world nor isn't going to detrimentally affect an understanding family.

It's no fun as FaQQ says but can be managed in the short term for happier times ahead.

[oracleslave]

Agreed with this. People live many different lifestyles and people survive single parenthood well enough so this lifestyle isn't the end of the world nor isn't going to detrimentally affect an understanding family.

It's no fun as FaQQ says but can be managed in the short term for happier times ahead.

After 16 years of it when do you think the happier times might arrive?

[milanbenes]

well.....

we're all in the same boat, luckily for the last 3 years I've been on one week on one week from home rotation, but when it ends, for sure the highest chance is I will be away every week

and what to do,

yes it's gets us down from time to time,

but,

it pays the bills and will hopefully lead to a more financially secure later life

that's the only reason we accept it

and we make the best of it


on the other side, my Mrs is the first to admit, I could be working in the local city and because of the nature of this kind of work Monday to Friday even working in the local city I might be in a situation where I leave before the children get up and return after they have gone to bed,

and then

on the other side, I could be an employee of Accenture for example who source their european projects from all of europe and happily send their consultants abroad every week...

so considering all of this,

the contracting away is not the end of the world

and as long as the rewards are invested carefully, and there's the odd treat from time to time to soften the pain then it can work


my Mrs also knows we wouldn't have a fraction of the things we have if contracting was not there - take the passat as a case point

all the best,

Milan.

[TheFaQQer]

After 16 years of it when do you think the happier times might arrive?

Around 2050, when the oil runs out.

[TheFaQQer]

my Mrs also knows we wouldn't have a fraction of the things we have if contracting was not there - take the passat as a case point

Sometimes, milan, very rarely - you do make me chuckle.

[Churchill]

It's the quickest most efficient way for us to set things up for the future.

I don't like it, SWMBO doesn't like it but it's a means to an end.



Churchill - In "Cheerfulness in the face of adversity" mode!