Flex Jobs: 3 Real Parents Explain How They Found Them

“We created it.”

Andy Green, 42
President and CTO of IT Firm Sonjara, Falls Church, Va.

Andy Green held down quite a few full-time office jobs in his career as a computer programmer, though the schedule never made much sense to him. “There were meetings left and right. I’d sit around waiting for it to get quiet around 5:30 so I could finally get some quality work done,” he remembers. He’d plow through it all evening and rarely saw his family for dinner. “Then I was expected to be in the office at 9 a.m. even though I was tired from working late the night before,” he adds. It was far from ideal.

His wife, Siobhan, worked in international development for a nonprofit (with a specialty in IT for social goals), and after the birth of their first child, her company wouldn’t give her any flexibility in her work schedule.

Andy returned to a day job, to earn the necessary health benefits for the family, while Siobhan started building up contract work. By 2006, Andy was able to join her in working full-time for their company.

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(reprinted from LearnVest)