Chen May Yee swapped life as a foreign correspondent in Asia for domesticity in Minneapolis, where she lives with preschooler Maya, kindergartener Zoe and husband Chris, a stay-at-home dad. She writes about healthcare at the Star Tribune and hankers after warmer climates.
Kay Krhin makes daily attempts to balance doing more with less and less with more at work and home, more or less. She is married to multi-faceted modern man Peter and is a slightly seasoned mother to preschooler Ben and toddler Vivian.
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No, that expert wouldn't be me. I wake up, get dressed and drive each day to work at the Star Tribune's downtown offices.
But I have tasted the rare thrill of working from home. And it can be a thrill. Like the time I came home from a reporting trip in Boston and stayed home for half a day of writing.
It was one of the last warm days of September. I set up the laptop on our table on the back porch, spread my notes out around me and, helped along by the fresh air, chirping birds and coffee, the story got written in record time.
This is the life, I thought. I am never going into the office again.
Other times, it's not worked so well. I've had the three-year-old screaming at the top of her lungs as I've tried to interview hospital CEO's by phone ("Please excuse my child, she's not really dying...") and the five-year-old wandering in with a story from school that just can't wait.
Probably just as well I have an office to go to. But one can dream.
Here's a good piece from Babble.com where Emily Mendell dispenses pratical advice on how to work from home. The biggest takeaway is that you can't do two jobs - your office job and care for your kids - so if you can't get at least part-time childcare, it's not going to work.
Other advice: Get buy-in from your boss and peers. And get out of your pajamas in the morning (it's a mindset thing),
Do you work from home or want to? Any tips to share?
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