Any consultant/consultant married couples or parents? How do you manage two travel schedules?

I recently accepted a position with
Deloitte and my husband is a firefighter so also away overnight. Getting nervous the travel will create chaos in the family with childcare.

Words of wisdom gladly accepted!

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You will realize it soon. By joining consulting, you also signed up to become firefighter. Always away 8 to 9. That's sad reality of consulting.

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That’s tough. My wife is remote so when I was previously with a company that involved travel, she either came with me or stayed home. Our parents live in town so they didn’t mind watching our child. If he’s able to switch his schedule around to reflect the days that you’re gone like M-Th then spend that time together on the weekends. It’ll be new at first, but gets old once it starts to affect the family (like not seeing them as much, just being physically there not mentally, too tired to do anything, etc).

My advice is do it, it’s a great opportunity that’ll lead to other things. Make sure your spouse knows that. When you come home, give your child and spouse your 100% undivided attention but you’re going to leave again next week, just nap on the plane. As long as there is mutual agreement and understanding about your WLB & job to your spouse and they support you then you’ll be fine but like I tell my wife when I was in your situation, it’s not a forever thing. Now if there is absolutely no one to watch your child thru the week, esp at night, I would decline the offer

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A lot of times 50% travel can mean it is sporadic. You may travel 2-3 times per month for 2-4 nights each time. Some months might be a little tough and others super light. As a hiring manager who has been writing some job descriptions for the new normal, they had us use percentages that were quite a bit over what we actually expect for the role. So my fingers are crossed this is true for your role as well.

You just can’t manage. Someone has to go to remote or internal role.

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My husband and I are both consultants. I make it very clear in staffing that we cannot both travel at the same time. No family in the area for us. As far as I’m concerned.m, No one is dying in this job and last minute ‘fires’ are not critical. But to do this you have to:
1. Be very clear and up front about your restrictions
2. Over-communicate
3. Be flexible in what you work on because you have to find a pyramid that is supportive

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Hello, being a consultant role I don’t think you will need to travel, every offer tries to cover every bit of company. Are you pre assuming that you will have to travel ? I believe being firefighter he doesn’t have any option but you can possibly understand your role and expectations then cater what needs to be done . “ Is it 2 /3 days in a week ?that you may need to travel then accordingly set up a plan and discuss with you husband” . I don’t think any company will expect you to travel everyday “ if that’s the case then it’s better to look for other opportunities”. World is full of opportunities and try to see what suits you best, you both will sail through it. Don’t fit in company shoes rather try to find a company who fits your shoe . Best wishes

Again , you are presuming many things at a times I being a senior consultant in deloitte I didn’t had to travel so identify what your role means

I am a consultant(mom) with a kid , my husband was in consulting too switched to no travel job after 2 yrs of having a child. In early yrs I had nanny / family around to support. Now I have a pre schooler and an evening nanny/ mother’s helper. You will need a solid support structure family / paid childcare to make it work. Also consulting has shifted to a hybrid model, so I don’t think it will be back to mon to Thursday travel, would be a lot easier.

Precovid it was Monday to Thursday sometimes Friday. Sometimes I could do a week remote. Sometimes I had to leave Sunday night and return Thursday or Friday. My point is it all depends on the project and depends on the stage of the project. Now it sounds like there may be more flexibility and who knows you may be able to go to a local office and co-locate locally

It can work if you focus on remote roles. But also depends on your level. Higher up may require travel every now and then even on a “remote” engagement.

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