Working all day

So, I just started a new job where I work 12 hours a day and commute for an hour each way. 

Crazy you call me? 

Yes, yes I am.

BUT

The pay is ridiculous so here is my problem.

I'm up and gone by the time my son wakes up in the morning and by the time I arrive home it is getting close to his bed time and I only have about 2 hours with him.  It really sucks because for the last two years, I pretty much spent every day with him, all day.  So, I now try to cram in a whole days worth of playing in the two hours I spend with him when I get home.  It kind of sucks and I wonder how fathers throughout history have dealt with this problem.  Could this be why we have emotionless fathers who can't bond with their children and in turn leave the same legacy for their sons to follow for ever and ever througout history?
I love my father and I never really got to know him until recently.  I have 3 other siblings and my father spent most of our childhood working to be able to support his family.  This I consider honorable and as the old saying goes, "duty is prior to happiness" but it made it so I never really got to know my father until I was an adult.  I do not want to have the same thing happen to myself and my boy and I want to know how to do it.  Technology will help with skype, google video, sightspeed, oovoo etc. leading the way to allow fathers to see their sons or daughters every night no matter where they are.
Or perhaps we need to get to the root of the problem...globalization, suburbia, urban sprawl etc.  All of these contributing factors have allowed our fathers to get further and further away from us when all we want to do is be with our sons all day to teach them, help them grow and love them to bits.

Well, I brought up a lot of issues that I can spend hours ranting and raving about but I should be using this time practically, spending time with my boy or at least thinking about what to do with him when I get home (cause I'm at work now, shhhhh don't tell anyone I'm blogging at work)

take care and be well