Work during the week, and the world works with you. Work nights and weekends and you work alone…
Lately I have become a weekend warrior. Each Friday afternoon I hack through the last of the week’s work, trying to achieve that elusive life balance. Especially with the current economic climate, I’m happy to be working at [...]
Andie and I have talked before about the curse of the work-from-home salary. My husband is the primary breadwinner, and my work is part-time, at home, and sometimes in my PJs. Considering all that, it’s so easy to think of whatever I earn as (a) extra, (b) mine, and (c) a reward for my trouble [...]
My attention span is shot.
It hit me the day when I nearly gnawed through the steering wheel because I had to drive across town. 15 minutes in the car is suddenly more than I can handle. I fidget, I honk, I tailgate, I repeat telepathic messages to the drivers around me (”Please speed up. Please speed up. [...]
Flexible workplaces with flexible hours and days are long in coming.
Is there anything better than checking off items on a to-do list? Wait…yes there is! Experiencing that feeling on a Friday afternoon, looking forward to a whole weekend unclouded by work! It don’t get no better….
Here’s wishing you a work-free weekend!
–Andie
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My predominant emotion when considering a “summerproof” work from home plan is fear. My attempt to cobble something together has already begun. I’ve titled this year’s attempt, “Get the kids on board.”
Breaking with the tradition of past years in which I sent the kids to a friend’s for a day or 2 per week, [...]
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Around my house we’re counting down until school’s out (June 5th in our neck of the woods).
While I’m looking forward to having the kiddies at home (really, I am), I know that the avalanche of work will inevitably break free and bury me sometime around, well, June 4th.
So, I’m wondering, what do you do to [...]
A true story: At my local mall on Saturday, I could see from my vantage outside Gamestop a little ATM oasis. And, as I sipped my diet Coke, I watched a woman walk up, press a few buttons, scratch her head, then proceed to open the hood of the ATM machine!
Concerned, but more curious, I [...]
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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 [...]