Tips For Dads Who Travel

How To Be There When You Can’t Be There

By Kevin Nelson

Ask any parent who travels on the job and he or she will tell you the same thing: It’s tough on family life. It’s tough to miss soccer games and birthdays and bedtime stories because you’ve got to make a meeting in Buffalo or a conference in Dubuque or your plane is delayed for hours in San Francisco. But what can you do?

Travel is a must in many jobs. It’s a way to get ahead, build careers. It keeps bread on the table, gets orthodontist and the college tuition paid, sends Junior to science camp and Missy on her class field trip to Washington D.C. At some companies if you’re not willing to travel, it’s sayonara, baby. So you do it. But you suffer and so does your family.

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