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Working at Home
Is it For You?
By Greg Downs
"The first couple of years were difficult in setting the boundaries," says Kelly, who recently left the magazine to direct Dads and Daughters, a program that lobbies against negative images of young girls in the mass media. "I was being a little compulsive, answering the phones at 2 o'clock in the morning in case somebody's calling for subscriptions. When do you close the door? The kids were the ones who really pushed us on that, demanding that we not be so compulsive about working all the time. At 6:30 we'd have to stop and come downstairs and eat dinner. They played the enforcers."
Finding time for spouses while running a business and caring for young children is also a challenge. "For a while my wife and I probably spent 15 minutes a day having conversation," says Massey. "That was it. And some of that would be while we were brushing our teeth."