I have always had jobs that allowed me to put my family first. <\/p>\n
That was a priority for me in choosing a career path. I was fortunate to have bosses who understood and who made accommodations to help me keep family first. <\/p>\n
Of course, a few times, work priorities meant making compromises. There were a few months that I was working out of the Washington DC area on a proposal to the US Government, so my employer flew my young family to the Detroit area to stay with my mother-in-law to be an extra set of hands. I flew in for my daughter’s second birthday party and then flew back to DC to continue work on the proposal. <\/p>\n
A few years later, in the midst of preparing for the hearings that led to the introduction of competition in Canadian telecom, the lawyers were put on hold while I popped back into Toronto for a couple hours to go to a special kindergarten presentation. The teacher commented to my wife that she thought it was great that I had the kind of job that allowed me to come to school in the middle of the day. <\/p>\n
I was somewhat surprised to see a tweet from CBC<\/a> that appears to mock a decision by Joe Natale to put his family priorities first:<\/p>\n