We thought about it around 12 months ago. There are lots of FIFO jobs in dh's field so we got plenty of feedback from others who have done it. The main feedback was that the men felt like they weren't needed at home anymore. The wife has to learn how to do everything on her own with the kids and just running the house full stop. Even if something needs fixing and it can't wait until the man is home then woman ends up organising that sort of thing too. Paying the bills etc etc really doing everything. The feedback we got was that the men didn't like not being 'needed' at home iykwim. But there's plenty of men who would love that to bits! For us dh currently spends 6 days at home out of 8 so he's really on a winner as it is and at this point spending time with ds is way more important to us than the extra money of the FIFO job. We might look into it again in the future? I think it does come dowon to having that extra moeny and the quality time you get to spend with eachother when he's home. Plus if you have more money to do things that you wouldn't have got to do otherwise then that can be great too.