I wish you could have felt the emotions I did my last day of work. Excitement, fear, anticipation, hope. Mostly a sense of freedom. I felt alive! I was leaving a company after 22 ½ years to pursue other interests. The job was fine and the company a place I still remember fondly but I was ready for a new adventure. I had no idea what would happen.
One thing was going to be new. As a management consultant I would have a lot more flexibility than I’d had as an employee. In a book I coauthored at the time, Transforming Work: The Five Keys To Achieving Trust, Commitment, And Passion In The Workplace, I wrote about leaving. “Nearly every day I drove the same route to work, parked in one of the same parking lots, and then walked down the same alley to enter our building. Five days a week times 50 weeks a year for 22 1/2 years comes to over 5600 times. And
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NORTH TEXAS Fathers are working more, spending less time with their families, and paying the price for it.
A new study from the Family and Work Institute found fathers are working on average, 47 hour weeks, three hours longer every week than men with no children.
It also leads to more work-family conflicts.
60-percent of men who work 50 or more hours every week said they find their work life and family life conflicting.
The primary reason for all the work researchers found, was the basic pressure men feel to provide for their family.
Rodney Munoz said it’s something he feels every day when he leaves his day job in Arlington, and drives to a side job working on cars in Red Oak.
“I got an understanding wife, and she just let me do what I need to do to provide for the family,” he said.
Munoz has a teenage daughter and two grown sons, but says he still feels the need to work long hours.
“Just became ingrained in me. Just be
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Alison C. Neese • 
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