I have been working on consulting independantly for the past couple of months and its slowly growin but at least its growing. I have recently been offered a great job being the main IT/Web Developer guy at a very good company. They are about a 40 mile drive in heavy traffic (1.5 - 2 hours each way) but allow for a 4 x 10 workweek with my choice of Fridays or Mondays off, 401(k), full medical, full dental, and fringe benefits all over, like 2 week company paid trip to Mexico every December for all employees, free football tickets, bonus', trip to Florida each year to support the company at a trade show for a week, and an INSAINE amount of major $$$$$$.

Only thing is that I would have heavy responsibilities, long drive, 14-16 hour days, have to leave my daughters alone until the evening when I get home (they will have dinner ready and waiting for me ), need to buy a commuter car to help save on gas and get one with an automatic transmission to save my leg from not having to use a clutch lol, not being able to have programming as my main priority will be bad although having to write 3 websites a year and update several company owned sites on a bi weekly schedule wil keep me into 'programming' I guess. I would suport 100+ systems, phone systems, air conditioning system (computer controlled and regulated), system updates, monitor all systems, desktop support etc.

So knowing that I have kids would you take the offer or continue to grow my consulting business so I can avoid traffic and be home for the kids?