I am late once again for #WeekendExperiences by but I like to play along anyway for fun and to support! If you haven't heard about the weekly challenge, you can read the latest one here @galenkp/weekend-engagement-topics-week-300 | @galenkp/weekend-engagement-topics-week-300 I also love #SublimeSunday (inspired by
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This weekend, I hit the road for some musical adventure and fill in the rest with beer, charity events and dog walks.
I have a job that takes me away from home a lot. Would you do a job that takes you away from home and from your family for 300 days a year? Explain.
This is a straight up HELL TO THE NO! Not just virtue signaling either as I have done it. The reason I pulled up roots and moved to a small town to do my own thing is in part because of the travel with the big city job. As a single dood, I enjoyed regular travel. Discovering new towns, enjoying nights on the town with colleagues and clients, seeing things that would provide memories forever. Then came my little ones.
I remember being away for 2 weeks when my first child was still in the crib. On the surface, I missed her a bunch because of the new life in our life, helping my wife with the early care, and enjoying those moments. Suck it up and earn that money like a man and she will be home when you get back. When I did get back, I sneaked into her room when she was napping, sat in the rocking chair answering emails 'til she woke up. When she did, I watched her stand up, look around, see me sitting there with a smile. Then, she paused. I could see her rationalizing who she was seeing, piecing it together with 2-week old memories, then a slow smile that was mixed with a little shyness that guts me to this day. A part of her had forgotten who I was from missing the daily routine and I had been gone for what turned out to be a quarter of her life at that point.
It trucked on with that career out of responsibility and started missing birthdays because of flight delays and other shit. A price not worth paying. Not even close to 300 days per year but 60 was enough to GTFO when the GTFOing was good. Now I trade that big money happily for the real things and would do it again.
Funny how quickly the snow comes and goes late in the winter. Warm overnight temps and a little rain wiped it all out and made the dog park rather swampy. Good thing I have waterproof boots and the little guy doesn't even care if he gets his feet and everything else wet.