at home dad

Before becoming a full-time at-home father I worked for 15 years designing training for Fortune 100 companies. I was never a power player mind you, just a lower level professional (functionary, really) that could be counted on to get the important tasks done right on projects the managing executives described as “enterprise flagship” or “mission critical.” Though I occasionally indulged myself with delusions of importance to these companies and their projects, I certainly never felt I was actually important. In fact, I never felt truly important until four years ago when I found myself unexpectedly out of a job and suddenly in full charge of the day-to-day care of our first child, only a year old at the time. I had entered fatherhood itself with a great deal of reluctance and reservation, ...