Do you work from home?

ArkansasPiscesGrrl · 05-12-2012, 02:40 PM

I am also self-employed, with a business I started up last fall. The weight of the "OMG, if I don't put ALL of my time possible into productive working, my business will fail, and I will become a homeless failure!" really gets to me sometimes. Yes, it is wonderful and such a blessing that I can take the time, if I want or need to, to take something over to my kids' house, to run them to school if needed, to go lay out by the pool on a particularly sunny day (I have taken my notes and my laptop with me to the apt's pool. It helped alleviate some of my guilt over NOT slaving away on my computer!) My partner keeps telling me "Ann, the world as you know it will NOT fall apart if you take 5 min to step away from your computer and go outside and WALK a bit!".

I also do some contracting for my old company, and have to justify on an hourly basis, what kind of hours I put in for a paycheck.So that keeps me aware, in a way, of time management.

I have been known, on too many occasions, to find myself sitting working perhaps 16-18+ hours a day. That is crazy for someone my age, I think!

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05-12-2012, 02:40 PM	#4
ArkansasPiscesGrrl Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Relationship Status: feeling pretty darned blissful right now! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: central AR Posts: 856 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,594 Thanked 3,079 Times in 741 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	I am also self-employed, with a business I started up last fall. The weight of the "OMG, if I don't put ALL of my time possible into productive working, my business will fail, and I will become a homeless failure!" really gets to me sometimes. Yes, it is wonderful and such a blessing that I can take the time, if I want or need to, to take something over to my kids' house, to run them to school if needed, to go lay out by the pool on a particularly sunny day (I have taken my notes and my laptop with me to the apt's pool. It helped alleviate some of my guilt over NOT slaving away on my computer!) My partner keeps telling me "Ann, the world as you know it will NOT fall apart if you take 5 min to step away from your computer and go outside and WALK a bit!". I also do some contracting for my old company, and have to justify on an hourly basis, what kind of hours I put in for a paycheck.So that keeps me aware, in a way, of time management. I have been known, on too many occasions, to find myself sitting working perhaps 16-18+ hours a day. That is crazy for someone my age, I think!