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Coping with Long Hours and Work Travel
You want to spend good, dedicated time with the kids every day, but sometimes it’s just not possible. Maybe you’re facing a late night to finish up a sudden and urgent project, or it’s busy season and you’re working around the clock, or face-to-face meetings are keeping you on the road, or you’ve just been deployed, or are pulling extra shifts because you need the money—or some combination. Whatever the reason, the result is the same: just as work pressures ratchet up, you have to juggle home and care logistics remotely, you worry about how the separation is affecting the kids … and you miss them like absolute crazy. It seems like a no-win situation.
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