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Jul12
You Know You Work From Home If...
  • Your 15-minute break entails pulling a load of laundry from the dryer to the baskets, from the washer to the dryer, and starting a third load.  Break?  What break?
  • Your coffee break includes driving to the Starbucks 10 miles away, on a back road, so that you are forced to be "stuck" behind a truck doing 15 mph and you don't get back to the home-sweet-office for an hour.
  • Your whiteboard space is covered with drawings of stick people, stick dogs, stick cats, and a brontosaurus your five year old just taught herself to draw.  (And they are all drawn better than you could do.)
  • Your employer includes sick days in your pay.  Which means when you have the flu you have no choice but to lay in bed and work on your laptop, sneezing on the screen periodically and trying not to spill orange juice on the keyboard.
  • You get excited about the local library getting Wi-Fi, because now you can check email during the preschool storytime.
  • When you see other adults at the library during storytime, working on their laptops, you ask for their IM username and send them a message that says, "I provide marketing services, you do graphic design.  Wanna cross-promote or barter?"
  • When they agree to discuss the matter further over coffee, you realize they are in front of you on the back road to a Starbucks 10 miles away.

2 Comments/Trackbacks




Thanks for brightening my day. This made me laugh out loud!

The promise of working from home is so often undermined by the reality.

I really must get out more. Hadn't thought of heading to Starbucks though ... great tip ;)

Glad you liked it, Alex! It was inspired by me getting up to take a break from the computer...to do everything described in point one. Hmmm. Anybody want to head to Starbucks? *chuckle*

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