When I left my office job I ended up taking a year off of work and then was offered a job tele-commuting for a company I had previously worked with and it worked out great for the next 3 years until the economy took a hit and I was laid-off.
I was only laid off for about a week before another company offered me the same deal where I could work from home to take care of the kids if they needed me to. Well last month I was laid off from that job after 4 years and the reason still bothers me. See they opened a location about an hour or so from me and now wanted me to work in the office. Normally that would have been no problem except when it came to school vacations or if one of the boys had a seizure and needed to be kept home from school. Now when I started with this company they knew about my past breast cancer, my boys epilepsy and why I was working from home.
When I started working from home I was able to do it at a substantial pay cut because I was not paying for daycare anymore. When the new job came up I was offered a position but not enough to make it worth putting the kids in daycare. Plus I have an added problem when kids hit 13 in Texas they cannot be in daycare anymore. My oldest is 12 now and to be honest I cannot even imagine him staying home alone. First what if he had a seizure? Still he just is not mature enough to be home alone. I still do not know what to do. So for now I am going back to school full time and not working a paying job.
Everything was working just fine before so why did it have to change? I really do not get it but ever since I have been laid off I am having more time to spend with my kids and I am really enjoying it.