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Not a remote worker but a nomadic one, now.

I work remotely but I also have two small, preschool aged kids, I used to have help with them at home but now I don't. Every work day I need to travel to a different place to get things done, taking one or both kids with me where they can be watched while I do my meetings and tasks.

On Mondays and Fridays, both kids come with me to the mother-in-laws' house.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, my daughter goes to preschool downtown and I take my son to a coworking office that has on-site nannies for babies. Which is a very interesting business idea! In practice he hates the place and screams the entire time I've left him, which I can hear, I hope he gets used to it soon.

On Wednesdays, I am off every other Wednesday and take the kids somewhere fun, like the zoo. On my "on" Wednesdays I take the kids to my dad's house.

Sometimes I actually do need to go into the office too, so I will bring my daughter to her preschool downtown on my way in. We get Starbucks and she is always super stoked about that. It's a very long day for both of us, though, I feel bad leaving her in her daycare the minute it opens and picking her up right at closing time.

I was hoping I would end up working from home some days, with both my kids in their respective schools, but it didn't end up working out that way. I almost feel like working in the office would actually be better, since I would have all of my things there, and now I have to carry them all with me, and the kids' things too, all the food and diapers for the baby, it's all a lot.

The kids do get to spend a lot of time with their extended family though, that's the main benefit of all of this. It will also be nice if I get some time at some point to write or at least relax between work tasks, but so far this has not happened yet.

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