Yeah, one of my friends also did for a while what your friend does, working different hours from his wife so they can both care for the kids. It was really hard on him, though, because he had to work three jobs (4 if you count the National Guard) so it's better now that he went Active Duty and his wife no longer works at all, and he only works the one job. The whole both working at different times, I think works best if both parents are professionals (for example, one is a professor and one is a nurse. Those are both fields which have widely varying hours available.) In my friend's case, no good companies would hire him because he was in the National Guard and it was hurricane season and he was always getting activated for that, so he was a janitor at two hotels, and worked at one gas station, and his wife... well, she was a police officer before, but the department in the town where they were living wouldn't hire her, so she ended up working at McDonald's. It sucked really bad. It is better for them now that he is in the Army full time.


Oh, and of course I will let you and everyone else know when I am coming to Geneva! It would be fun to have a Europe meet up!!

He's worth it.