Brady Ernst – Family Man Since 08/01/2015

Before my wedding I had to slave away… working long hours… not taking lunch… but now I have a family.

It is no longer Brady+Girlfriend+Cat = 0
It is now Brady+Wife+Cat = Family Man

While my home life didn’t change, I have now been inducted into an exclusive work club that entitles me to certain obligatory benefits:

8-5 work days

Extra long lunches for “Family” matters

Now the #1 priority of my life is my Family and that is OK… expected even… which is great because I love my Family! Furthermore, my job now is just a means to an end – an obligation even, and I don’t have to pretend to care because everyone knows family comes first.

So long late hours working past 5.

So long spooky noises alone at my desk until midnight.

So long calling the cops because the aforementioned spooky noises were disturbingly loud and I thought there might have been a vagrant stomping around up on the roof.

So long making the Bozeman Daily Chronicle Police Reports because the incessantly loud vagrant turned out to be just hungry crows.

So long non-Family Man Brady Ernst.

Now I don’t have to make up excuses to go home at 3:30 to feed my cat.
I am a Family Man now and if my cat wants an afternoon snack, I can leave anytime I damn well please!
The wife is out of town for the day. “See you guys! I have Dad-Duty this afternoon” – somebody needs to pet the cat and give her tasty crème crème by 3:00pm – I’m a Family Man now.

The only burden is that I now have to update my business card and all of my social media profiles. I can no longer refer to myself as a mere Baby Architect. I now have to refer to myself as Husband. Architect. Family Man. 

 

Husband. Architect. Family Man.^|1|

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1 Technically, I am now Husband. Baby Architect. Adopted Cat Step-Father.

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This post is part of the #ArchiTalks series in which the multi-faceted architect Bob Borson, of Life of an Architect, selects a theme and a group of us other (architectural) bloggers all post on the same day, on the same topic. It’s similar to those 3rd grade art projects – where every classmate gets the same piece of (photocopied) paper with identical squiggly marks as a starting point – and then all the students use their creativity to produce an original masterpiece. This month’s theme is Work/Life.

Bob Borson – Life of An Architect (@bobborson)
Work | Life – Different Letters, Same Word

Enoch Sears – Business of Architecture (@businessofarch)
Work Life

Matthew Stanfield – FiELD9: architecture (@FiELD9arch)
Work / Life : Life / Work

Marica McKeel – Studio MM (@ArchitectMM)
Work/Life…What an Architect Does

Jeff Echols – Architect Of The Internet (@Jeff_Echols)
The One Secret to Work – Life Balance

Lee Calisti, AIA – Think Architect (@LeeCalisti)
work | life :: dance

Mark R. LePage – Entrepreneur Architect (@EntreArchitect)
Living an Integrated Life as a Small Firm Architect

Lora Teagarden – L² Design, LLC (@L2DesignLLC)
#ArchiTalks: Work/life…attempts

Collier Ward – Thousand Story Studio (@collier1960)
Work/Life

Jeremiah Russell, AIA – ROGUE Architecture (@rogue_architect)
what makes you giggle? #architalks

Jes Stafford – Modus Operandi Design (@modarchitect)
Turning Work Off

Eric T. Faulkner – Rock Talk (@wishingrockhome)
Work/Life — A Merger

Rosa Sheng – Equity by Design / The Missing 32% Project (@miss32percent)
Work Life Fit: A New Focus for Blurred Lines

Michele Grace Hottel – Michele Grace Hottel, Architect (@mghottel)
Work Life

Drew Paul Bell – Drew Paul Bell (@DrewPaulBell)
Work / Life

Michael Riscica – Young Architect (@YoungArchitxPDX)
I Just Can’t Do This Anymore

Meghana Joshi – IRA Consultants, LLC (@MeghanaIRA)
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Amy Kalar – ArchiMom (@AmyKalar)
ArchiTalks #12: Balance is a Verb.

Stephen Ramos – BUILDINGS ARE COOL (@sramos_BAC)
An Architect’s House

brady ernst – Soapbox Architect (@bradyernstAIA)
Brady Ernst – Family Man Since 08/01/2015

Brian Paletz – The Emerging Architect (@bpaletz)
Father, Husband, Architect – typically in that order

Tara Imani – Tara Imani Designs, LLC (@Parthenon1)
On Work: Life Balance – Cattywampus is as Good as it Gets

Jonathan Brown – Proto-Architecture (@mondo_tiki_man)
Architecture: Work to Live

Eric Wittman – intern[life] (@rico_w)
midnight in the garden of [life] and [work]

Sharon George – Architecture By George (@sharonraigeorge)
Work = 1/3 Life

Daniel Beck – The Architect’s Checklist (@archchecklist)
Work Life Balance: Architecture and Babies – 5 Hints for Expecting Parents

Jarod Hall – di’velept (@divelept)
Work is Life

Anthony Richardson – That Architecture Student (@thatarchstudent)
studio / life

Lindsey Rhoden – SPARC Design (@sparcdesignpc)
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