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That would annoy me so much!!

Dh works from home and I often do as well, but people usually understand for the most part. Like, no one has ever expected me to be able to write my dissertation with lo underfoot. I do feel self conscious about it sometimes though with random people--like, the doormen in our apartment building must wonder why we're around all hours of the day, haha

@littlejoy: oh dear!

People don't seem to understand, especially my family - heck even my husband.
They ask me to do chores for them, call me during the day etc. Friends even ask me to babysit!
I work full time and make more than 50% of our household income. They think it's my "little job" also!

I'm annoyed for you! Sorry!

@littlejoy: Sorry you have to fight the misconceptions. DH works from home 2 days a week. Nobody has ever asked him if our LOs are home during that time or insinuated that he should be doing anything but work... except me. I always want him to start laundry before I get home.

I think it's because you work from home. I work from home, too (I telecommute, so I'm still a worker bee for a big company), and when I meet new people, they think I must sit at home and occasionally make stuff for an Etsy shop or stuff envelopes.

But it works for me and my family, so that's all that really matters! I'm able to take lon lunches if LO has a play date and I always do preschool drop off and pick up. It's a good balance for us, even if nobody knows what it is I do for a living.

DH works full time from home and I had several people tell me how great it was when I was pregnant since DH would be able to "watch LO" when I returned to work. First of all he works. How could he take conference calls with a baby? And second I hate that when moms care for babies that's normal but dads are babysitting.

I'm self-employed and WAH and send my LOs to full-time daycare. There are a lot of misconceptions and I think people, especially the mailman, must think I just sit around all day. I personally love WAH and am not interested in going back to an office setting. Luckily for me, in my industry most people who do what I do are freelance/self-employed.

I used to WFH 3 days per week (and travel 2) and *I* didn't get it when I was expecting E! I wrote a post on here asking I I should WFH full time and keep LO home with me! What planet was I on???!!!

My DH doesn't really get it. If I WFH now (its infrequent and ad hoc since my promotion), he leaves me errands to run and jobs to do in the house. Drives me batty!

@LovelyPlum: I know what you mean, it can be so hard on our relationship to have both of us working at home (though sometimes it's also fantastic, to be fair)! when we moved for me to start grad school, we both went from 9-5 office jobs to working from home (his job is still 9-5, mine is all over the place). we actually had to set ground rules about when we could talk to each other, especially since my office back then as well as now didn't have a door and is next to the kitchen--dh still 5.5 years later will forget and just start blabbering about whatever while I'm in the middle of writing a sentence or something we're pretty good about balancing watching R while we're both working, but by good I mean I usually just don't try to work while she's home and he's working, except for a few minutes here or there (like, he will watch her while I shower or if an email comes up that I need to respond to immediately). I have so much trouble working while R is home/awake in general, I have to literally hide from her or there's no chance for any productivity, which means I can't use my desk since it's in our living room.

I used to run a bridal business and sold my items in Nordstrom, among other boutiques, and in my own shop. It was SO MUCH WORK, and no, people did not get it, because I did it from home.

I feel you! I work from home and the only people that seem to understand it's a real job is my immediate family. Due to the flexibility of my job when I am out of the house people seem to think I'm like Tommy from Martin. It's ridiculous. I don't talk about my work much, but since it's not something as familiar as what DH does I think his friends and family especially think he's supporting us. I remind them it takes two when they say slick things. Even people at my own company, but different departmemt think somehow my nend for childcare will be vastly different their own because of the hours/location they keep vs mine. Umm no! I'm happy too daycare pick up is at 6 pm.

I work from home as well. I am an actuarial consultant and run an online retail store. My husband understands the demands fully, but my side of the family think it's a joke. My nephews have even told me that their mom (my SIL) says I play computer games with DS all day. Little do they know that my work brings in at least 3 times than DH does monthly. I just laugh it off. Thinking I live the total dream - playing all day and living comfortably - is quite hilarious to me!