[lrvick]

I am near a landline 90% of the time, am reachable by internet during working hours on weekdays, and go to my desk to check emails and chats multiple times a day on weekends. It turns out you do not need to be reachable or online every second of every day to do virtually anything in the modern world including raising kids.

[apexalpha]

Oh, this sounds like you work from home and can just substitute your landline and PC for 90% of contact, this wouldn't nearly work like this for most people.

Envy you a bit, though.

[lrvick]

I had this lifestyle when I worked from an office, and at home, in both individual contributor and leadership engineering roles. I also travel quite a bit.

Just set expectations with others and it works just fine either way. Only thing in the way is cognitive dissonance for most people.

In my case people absolutely forgive not being able to reach me every second of every day because I am a productivity machine due to being able to actually focus.