i consider myself very lucky able to go for a few rides a week it’s taken a few years to get here had another child 2 years ago after a 13year gap and at that point did some rearranging work wise i.e stopped being on call and in fact changed job when that employer didn’t like me reducing my hours down from 50+hrs to 38hrs with a little bit of overtime when I wanted it,current employer is very happy with this arrangment in fact goe someway to pushing other service engineers(those with kids) to follow suit