I’m struggling this year… when we had our kid my wife wanted to stay home with her and since we could financially afford it we made it work.

Now she’s in kindergarten and my wife has gone back to work. But with kindergarten comes PD days, a mountain of sick days and, soon, spontaneous snow storms.

I’ve always been able to iron man my way through small business, one sick day in 6 years, and for vacation and time off I can plan for that.

But I’m having a hard time with the chaos and unpredictability of kindergarten lifestyle. Anyone been through it? Anyone able to cope better?

  • Kenthor@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if this is an option in your case but, I have just scaled my business back. There are only so many hours in the day. I don’t anticipate scaling it back up until they are much older.

      • Kenthor@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I have been in business for over 10 years so it varies. I used to have 25 employees at one time. I have since scaled back to 1 or 2 depending on the time of year. I basically make much less product than I did before. So revenue is way down, surprisingly profit is somewhat similar and I have much more time. I scaled back initially because of financial reasons but, now that I have a family, I don’t see myself scaling up anytime soon.