Working from home.
I use to get in my truck and drive to my office. The traffic was horrible and I’d arrive at work grumpy in the morning and arrive home grumpy in the afternoon. Well, that office got closed and I was out of work for a few hours until I decided to throw in with a fellow ex-employee of that office and go after the work that was out there for ourselves.
Mostly I’m working from home now. I walk down the hall from my bedroom to my office at 7:30 each morning, arriving at work in a good mood with a fresh brewed cup of coffee and start organizing my day. Around 10:00 I stop for a break, grab a snack (usually carrot sticks or fruit and another cup of coffee) and then go back into my office to work a little more and make a few phone calls. I eat lunch around noon, take another break around 2:30 and then work until 4:30. At 4:30 my son arrives home from school so I shut down what I’m doing and walk out of my office and declare myself “home”.
Yes there are times that I need to work late so I do that and I make a note of it on my timesheet. There are times when I need to be at a customers site at 8:00 or 8:30 so I go into my office early. My routine changes fairly often but if there is nothing required out of the ordinary then I ordinarily stick to my above schedule. If one doesn’t do this then one is going to find themselves screaming, “I can’t do this anymore!“
General | Larry Burton | 31 January 2003 |
