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Right now I'm a dad who works in a similar situation, with a few notable exceptions (my 'coworkers' are my dog and cat, and the person taking care of my daughte

Right now I'm a dad who works in a similar situation, with a few notable exceptions (my 'coworkers' are my dog and cat, and the person taking care of my daughter while I'm working is my wife). In my opinion, one of the major advantages of working from home is that when I want to take a break, I get to go hang out with my daughter. I really wouldn't want to trade that for anything... The downside to our arrangement is that my wife is very limited in what she can do, career-wise. A space like this would open up a huge number of alternatives for us, with very few tradeoffs (aside from the cost, which is conspicuously absent from the article...)

prawn 13y ago
Wait until your daughter learns to come and knock on the office/study door and call out for you!
- kirubakaran 13y ago
  Have your office in the second floor, with a trap door (at the entrance) that opens into a slide that delivers the child (or spouse) back to the first floor.
  - elwell 13y ago
    There's some wonderfully hilarious imagery in that sentence.
- JshWright 13y ago
  Heh, I'm hoping that by the time she has the strength and dexterity to open the gate at the bottom of the stairs that she'll also have the cognitive ability to understand "Daddy's working".
  - iamwithnail 13y ago
    Mine has both... (At two.) it's v difficult to deal with "not work, daddy, come play. Come play!"
  - prawn 13y ago
    I get the knocking at the door plus "Daddy. Daddy." My wife taught our 18 month old to do just that. It's sweet, but completely distracting and disruptive to the point where on days I could have worked at home, I need to head into the office to get any flow going.
qwerta 13y ago
Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job. Major reason for my start-up was to work from home. Sometimes when there is emergency meeting, outside of office hours, I have baby on my lap while video conferencing. Most people tolerate it if she is not crying.
- JshWright 13y ago
  > Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job. My full time job is what brings enough money into the household to allow for us both to be home. She does work from home (she has a dozen or so piano and voice students in the evening when I'm available to watch our daughter), but it would be pretty tough for her to actually use her degree and teach full-time in a K-12 classroom.

prawn 13y ago

Wait until your daughter learns to come and knock on the office/study door and call out for you!

kirubakaran 13y ago
Have your office in the second floor, with a trap door (at the entrance) that opens into a slide that delivers the child (or spouse) back to the first floor.
- elwell 13y ago
  There's some wonderfully hilarious imagery in that sentence.
JshWright 13y ago
Heh, I'm hoping that by the time she has the strength and dexterity to open the gate at the bottom of the stairs that she'll also have the cognitive ability to understand "Daddy's working".
- iamwithnail 13y ago
  Mine has both... (At two.) it's v difficult to deal with "not work, daddy, come play. Come play!"
- prawn 13y ago
  I get the knocking at the door plus "Daddy. Daddy." My wife taught our 18 month old to do just that. It's sweet, but completely distracting and disruptive to the point where on days I could have worked at home, I need to head into the office to get any flow going.

qwerta 13y ago

Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job. Major reason for my start-up was to work from home. Sometimes when there is emergency meeting, outside of office hours, I have baby on my lap while video conferencing. Most people tolerate it if she is not crying.

JshWright 13y ago
> Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job. My full time job is what brings enough money into the household to allow for us both to be home. She does work from home (she has a dozen or so piano and voice students in the evening when I'm available to watch our daughter), but it would be pretty tough for her to actually use her degree and teach full-time in a K-12 classroom.