Working from home can make you feel like your own boss…until you realize that your incredibly tight time frames, your children’s soccer schedule, and the demands of housekeeping are doing their darndest to push you out of the drivers seat and send you careening into the nearest embankment.
Speaking of being the boss, Wednesday’s edition of [...]
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Visualize the family station wagon packed to the gills, sailing off on vacation with the happy nuclear family of five. (And if you’ve been in the car with said family for 14 hours, you’ll know why they call it “nuclear!”)
Now add to this mental image a roof rack stacked high with reference materials, loose papers whipping free in [...]
Unlike a traditional J-O-B, working from home is a constant battle of boundaries. It can easily have you feeling the burn. And after three weeks of burn, I am feeling kinship with the contents of a dirty ashtray; I’m battling burnout.
Helpguide.org has many helpful resources on dealing with stress and its sometime companion, burnout. When [...]
In his new book, How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins discusses the process of corporate failure. These lessons can apply to small producers. Check it out here:
According to Steve DeMaio, author of “I quit, now what?”, it’s important that work-at-home professionals set aside time for professional development.
Sometimes this job really is a day at the beach…
Today I took shameless advantage of work-at-home flexibility to go on my preschool daughter’s field trip to Bowers Beach, a fishing village divided north to south by Murderkill River. (Many Delaware beaches have names suggestive of mayhem.)
Walking the beach in the chill and the fog was [...]