Parents w/ 1 Hour Commute?

Any parents out there who have a hour commute to work each morning? How do you manage you and your kids' time?

I have an hour commute from Long Island to the City.  It is an hour door to office each way.  Plus; the 20 minutes it takes to drop her off and pick her up.  It's very hard.  I'm attached to my blackberry and laptop; and i really try to spend VERY quality intimate time with her when she's with me.

i miss her desperately and think about her every minute of every day.

as far as managing me;  i do everything at night to get ready for the next day-  and she's very good that she goes with the flow. 

It's the only thing she knows.

I may have an opportunity to switch to a job with a really great company and a salary increase of around $860 per month. That increase could help us pay my car off faster and add to our savings for a house. But I'm concerned about having to spend an hour (a little more at times) on the road and also having to wake my twins (seven year old girls) up at 5AM every morning, then taking them to my parents house to get on the school bus. this would also mean that both my husband and I would be at work an hour away in case of an emergency.

Does it sound worth it? Keep in mind this company does have a site right here in town (they aren't hiring right now), so the commute could possibly last a little over a year or whenever the closer branch starts hiring again.

Well, that is a lot of money, but....  Factor in the commute time to your work hours and ask yourself if you really want to work 50 hours a week. Figure out your hourly wage, and see if it's worth it to add two unpaid hours of "work" per day.  That unpaid commute time is going to bring down your "hourly wage"....do you know what I mean?  You might be making more money when it comes to your paycheck, but you might not be making as much for your time.

did that for 20 years. didnt want to move kids out of their school, not that it was a good school but it was theirs. you do what you must for your family. i did my commute time. and it is like doing time. no mistake about it, but your priorities are uniquely yours, and mine was offering stability to my kids (since they have such an unstable father).

i am now an empty nester and moved as close to work as possible since daughter started college. love!

I've done a long commute, I've worked two jobs, and I've done shift work. Both are hard when you don't get to spend much time with your kids. If you have the opportunity to transfer out of the long commute within a couple of years it will make things easier for you. You do need to take all of the factors into consideration.

Kids adapt. They won't like the new schedule at first, and they may try to guilt trip you. If you feel the pros out way the cons for your particular situation, don't buy into the guilt.

I am a firm believer in quality time. The best scenario is quantity and quality, but your kids will benefit more from quality time than just quantity time.

I had a commute of nearly 90 minutes once upon a time.  Have two kids.

I managed my time by getting a new job that was within ten minutes distance of my home.

There's no going back.  You couldn't pay me enough to give up that much time again.

I have a one hour commute to work each way. I don't like it. But I like where we live and my work won't move closer. But it would be nice to get 10 hours a week back.

I have three kids and I leave well before they wake up and I am so tired when I get home and they get to bed not much after that there isn't much quantity time with them.

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