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Posted By: susie Posted On: Dec 19, 2006 Views: 1374	travel poll Currently, I'm the wife of a deployed soldier. He's been deployed for 18 months. His civilian job isn't much better as he's gone 2 and 3 nights a week. I really just want him home AND happy. Travel is all fine when you don't have little ones at home, but it's hard when they are young and don't understand or don't want to understand why Daddy isn't at x, y, or z again. Having support is nice and all that, and granted, I don't have a lot of it, but it's not the same as having a husband. This summer, I went to visit family and could do a bunch more than I could living at home, but it's just not the same as being able to count on a husband.
Posted By: Cory Posted On: Dec 19, 2006 Views: 1377	Travel Wow, more people don't care if their spouse travels than do? That's sad!
Posted By: Cheri Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 1389	travel Ultimately I just want hubby to be happy and fullfilled. As June Cleaver/1950's as that sounds, it is true. I get to stay at home and homeschool my kids...I'm living my dream ''job'' I want him to be happy in his too. We went through several deployments when he was still in the ARMY, that was before kiddos though. As a fed agent he's done a few 6 week stints, those were not too bad. I don't know how I would handle every other week?
Posted By: Kate Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 487	Poll for December 17th If I had a good support network and was closer to home, I would definitely say go for it. As he would me I think. It's tough flying solo but if it meant I could stay home, I would do it. Trust me- I'm not loving my work scene right now.
Posted By: Heidi Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 512	Kind of a moot survey for me Being that Michael does travel and while it's a nice steady job, I wouldn't call it lucrative. Still, it was either that or sell our house and move to Alabama, which we weren't keen on doing. (sigh) Still there ARE times when I'm glad to see him go for a day or two and I can do as I please and have the WHOLE bed to myself AND, most importantly, complete control over the tv remote. ;-) Still, I think I'd prefer if he had a job where he didn't have to travel so much. It's hard on everyone. Fortunately the most he's ever gone is for a week at a time and most of the time it's only for a few days. I feel for you though, it's tough when your husband travels.
Posted By: Sharon Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 519	travel My husband is in the navy, so he has been gone just over 50% of our 5 year marriage. We thought there would be no more travel as of last april, when he started a graduate degree, but no, this time I accepted the travel job and I fly to seattle just about every week. Some day we'll settle down and quit traveling, but right now it works for us, and we know how to deal with it.
Posted By: eliz Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 528	traveling I spent a year (before baby) traveling a LOT. It was tough but he was very supportive of me and my career, and I actually like to travel. I'm much worse being home alone- that turns me into an anxiety frenzy. Now that we have the Baby Boo- travel would be tricky. I do the bulk of the work with the baby- but dad helps out a lot and is always willing to watch her while I run errands. He takes care of other chores and primary care of the critters now. It would be difficult to handle this on our own, not impossible but it would get tiring quick. I would keep an open mind-- but one thing that would be crucial is if the traveling person is happy. If they don't like traveling, if they hate being away from home and it is really impacting their mood/attitude, it would not matter how lucrative the position is- it is not going to work in the long term. Things that did help us while traveled is communication/contact, time together when I returned, postcards from where I was as a reminder I'm thinking of him (plus the nieces got cards from all over which is great for educational purposes!). Also- having it clear when travel plans were- a calendar posted with schedules and trying not to have to make last minute changes (except to come home earlier!). Hopefully it will not last forever and he'll be up the next step of the ladder and home more! Fingers crossed!!!
Posted By: Kristin Posted On: Dec 18, 2006 Views: 507	Not just lucrative Besides depending on how lucrative, it also depends if the family can travel with! Since we homeschool, doing all that traveling could be lots of fun. :)