http://blog.dailyink.com/2012/05/07/editors-dispatch-qa-with-terri-libenson/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:52:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://blog.dailyink.com/2012/05/07/editors-dispatch-qa-with-terri-libenson/comment-page-1/#comment-3882 Nick Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:58:15 +0000 http://blog.dailyink.com/?p=1932#comment-3882 Hi Tess,That pajama dirieas lady is funny! My children are 7,8, and 10. My husband works from home too, so we are doubly blessed.The never stop working’ problem is one we have faced. We have a solution: we don’t work on Sundays. Monday deadlines are Saturday night deadlines for me. That’s our method of keeping the balance in focus every week.What else? I agree with the benefits you and the other commenters raise. I’ve had a houseful of feverish whiners this week, and I still love my job. In fact, I can’t imagine going out’ to work again.I think you have to be a natural juggler to achieve this successfully. I’m not advocating multi-tasking in all its forms, but I think freelancing mothers need the ability to switch modes quickly to pay attention to all that pulls on them in order to achieve this combination calmly.I have had a computer free week of vacation once in all the time I’ve been doing this. Most of the time I take my lap top on trips and set an auto responder to say I’m unavailable for new projects until xxx. That means I’m never tempted to actually work’ while on vacation. I reply to anything important morning and evening. I want to be online anyway for news and finding the info on the place we’re visiting tomorrow and all that. I don’t take the laptop just to answer work email.I take about 6 weeks off work most years, during school vacations and for conferences.One important point to make about all this flexibility though, and I don’t know if it is the case for all the others who replied, is that this is my family’s second income. If I were the main earner in my household, I would not be so blase9 about the con of irregular income.

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