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A Stay At Home Dad and Lovng It. How About You?

Gre8tfather
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I never knew what it would be like to be a stay at home Dad. I used to work as an executive for the #1 Electronics Retailer in the world always working a minimum of 75 hours per week. The pay was great, but to many days away from my wife and newborn son.

Heck I would come home and he didn't even want to come by me. So get this I worked a 28 hour day and when I got home my wife sat me down and said LOOK at what you are missing and showed me a video of our son rolling over. Guess how that made me feel.

So you know I staid up late that day and looked on the internet for a different career and I actually found one where I can do it at home. And in the personal development industry. So in other words I had to really change the way how I thought. The best thing that has ever happened to my family and I. I walked away from that Executive Job in 92 days.

Now I know after reading so many of your articles what it is like. So do most of you work at home as well. I would assume since it is about at home dads.

God bless to all of you,

Kenneth Cedar
http://Wealth-Freedom-Abundance.com


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Submitted by Gre8tfather on Sun, 03/30/2008 - 9:54pm.

dbrigham
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feeling guilty

I love my job, too, and wouldn't trade it for anything. My kids are well behaved, cute as well, smart, funny, creative, talented. Do you ever get that from coworkers at any other job?

I was actually awake for a while in the middle of the night last night (because my 9-month-old girl woke up briefly) and couldn't get back to sleep because I'm feeling guilty that starting next weekend I'll be gone for 4 to 5 hours every Sunday playing baseball. "I'm gonna miss the kids," I said to myself. "And my wife's gonna be hustling more than she's used to." I've played baseball the past three years, and curtailed a little last summer when my little girl was born. But this is the first year I'm feeling guilty, even though I know I need the outlet, and my wife does, too, but she doesn't have a similar outlet and obviously wants me to be around as much as possible on the weekends.

I'm gonna have to find a way to balance my baseball with my family. Not a bad set of options to have, I guess.

www.davebrigham.com


Mon, 03/31/2008 - 10:07am

MileHiDad
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Some (most) days

I love it...
Then there are the days I hate it, just like any other job.
But, you take more care because you got a lot more invested for the long term.

-Mike DT1 MPCG My Site, http://www.milehidad.com/ and my Blog, http://www.milehighdad.net/.
Make Babies, Not War!
I Wanna Know How Forever Feels...


Mon, 03/31/2008 - 10:53am

jpod00
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In for the Long Haul

I'm in my seventh year of this. You couldn't force me to give it up. This will be my only job for quite some time, and always, always my highest priority. There are moments from time to time when I question my sanity, but they are always fleeting. It is simultaneously the most challenging and most rewarding thing I have ever done, or ever will.

I do not miss being part of the mainstream 'workforce'. IMHO, there is no greater responsiblity, or any greater contribution I could make to the world, than to raise my kids to be the best people they can be.

Jim
Boulder, CO
Dad to Cole, Luke & Trev


Mon, 03/31/2008 - 3:52pm

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