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Local online sales director Jules McMahon says if 2020 has taught him anything, it’s that he doesn’t need to live in the city anymore.
The chirpy father of two kids under 7 says he’s seriously considering selling the family home in the bustling Betoota Old City District and moving to Byron or the Lockyer Valley.
“There’s literally no need to be in the city, with all the technology we have these days” he says.
“Lockdown proved that. I got more done in those 6 weeks than I could have ever gotten done in the office, and I got to spend the whole time with the kids”
However, Jules’ exhausted wife Sherry doesn’t seem to see eye-to-eye on his claims of spending ‘the whole time’ with their cyclonic two kids – in fact, she says he’s probably spent more time locked inside his studio during the pandemic than would ever spend in his office downtown.
With one child finishing up grade two and another kindergarten-age, Sherry’s life as a stay-at-home mum has been non-stop since the first outbreaks in March.
In fact, aside from the three meals he eats at the kitchen table each day, and the occasional movie night, Sherry and the kids don’t see dad that much at all.
“I think he thinks that because he’s in the same building as us, he’s somehow contributing”
“He’s been in that room for seven months. He wouldn’t even realise our oldest kid has learned how to read in that time”
“Without the help of a school teacher”
However, Jules disagrees with what he believes to be the exaggerations of stay-at-home parents.
“Haha. Talk about a bunch of whingers mate”
“I’ve been able to run a full sales team and run a household this whole year”
“That’s not saying I’m not excited to go back to the office haha. But jeez, it’s not something I should get a medal of honour for”
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