[taheca]

Easy to make a statement like this.

My wife has never worked because she did not have a career established when we decided to have kids. Allowing her to stay home is one of my proudest accomplishments (and it has done wonders for our kids).

I am home every night to spend a few hours with my kids, and I read to them every night before bed.

I spend all day on the weekends with them.

Sure I would love a shorter commute, as I said, I am in a non technical, and not in as high demand profession as many on here.

This is what a regular person goes through Hackernews. Keep that in consideration the next time you feel like complaining.

[alkonaut]

I don't mean to say you are making poor choices, I meant to say I hope you are well compensated for it. And it saddens me that we still have to be making this (11-12h workday) as a perhaps rational choice. It's a failure in infrastructure, city planning, labor laws, ... People fought really hard to get to 5 day/40h work weeks. Seems we lost a bit of momentum after that.