Home Office Commute
Like more people get to do every day, I work from my home office. As I look out my window on this cold, wet and quickly approaching snowy day, I'm reminded of how lucky I am. When I woke this morning I went through a similar routine as most; I shaved and showered and dressed and prepped myself for the day. I ate a little breakfast and instead of getting into my car for my morning commute, I strolled down the hall to my office arriving about five seconds later.I didn't have to sit through traffic or get frustrated at the guy in the left lane doing twenty-five in a forty. I didn't have to park out in the sticks hoping to avoid another door ding from the other guy stumbling into work and not paying attention to the world around him. I didn't have to go outside in this miserably cold and wet day.
So now I sit here with you sharing my thoughts and opinions. I expect that I have a more positive outlook than those who had to endure all of the above. However, it's not always so rosey. ( I'm not sure if a pun was intended, but I do recognize that it is punny, ha ha. ) Anyhow, when you work from home people don't always think of you as working. I don't know what it is exactly. I speculate that if they haven't had the privilege of doing so themselves, I don't think they fully understand.
Just because my commute is significantly shorter, doesn't mean that I don't have similar deadlines and restrictions as they do. It just means that my commute is shorter. I have a double whammy because in addition to working at home, I'm self-employed. So this must mean that I can drop everything at any time just because I want to.
This typically comes into play when the children have those "teacher workdays" or they're sick. Speaking of teacher workdays, I'm really tired of our educators complaining about how much they get paid. They have more time off... Anyhow. If I'm working at home, I must be the one who can watch kids. I'm here anyway. Think about if you brought your kids to your office. How productive would/could you be?
Just like most things in life, you have to take the bad with the good. Don't take me wrong, I'm not complaining. Not really. I have it pretty good. I'm just trying to enlighten those who don't work from home to keep in mind that the most import word in "work from home" is "work" not "home."