Just another reason to be thankful for working from home
This picture tells it all!
I have just been reminded why I love working from home. The meeting I just got out of was a complete disaster! There was a lady that just would not stop arguing long enough to actually hear what we were saying. She is an older lady that works in our accounting department and doesn't know anything about technology beyond what she deals with in Quickbooks and she doesn't care to learn more. However, we are switching our whole accounting system over to another product and integrating it with Salesforce. So, she now will need to learn another system. I am just so glad that I was able to mute my side of the line when she got going on her rants! Otherwise, I might have just been fired. LOL If we had been in a physical office and the other people in the meeting could have seen my expressions and heard my comments. I'm sure an all out brawl would have started. I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking this way though.
It is just comforting to know that I don't need to see certain people every day. I can communicate with them through email instead. Yay!
Sorry for the rant here but I just needed to vent about my current job and let everyone know how great it is working from home and not being in an office setting all day.
Makes me even more motivated to work on my new business of building my own brand and website! Time to calm myself down now by writing about something that I do enjoy!
On a side note, does anyone know of a service that will deliver a bottle of wine to my house on demand. I could use a glass right now also! :)
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I love this! Yes, we all have our motivations for wanting to work from home! I hope you can make that come true.
I am lucky I have a great boss and co-workers but that has not always been the case and just one hiring decision could change all that again. I completely understand how you feel!!!
Jessica
I have been working from home for my current employer for 5 years now and I do love my job! It's just days like today that make me grateful for not having to go to an office and deal with certain people in person. As soon as I hit the 'End Meeting' button, they are gone! That is such a great feeling! I wish I had that button and/or the mute button for my personal life also. Then life would be even easier! LOL
Yes, that button would be nice. I am glad you can work from home. I look forward to the day I can too with my websites and the properties we own and manage. It is hard since my husband and I have 4 jobs between us now.
That definitely doesn't leave much time free time for you two. Is it possible for you to talk your boss into letting you work from home?
They have offered but it is difficult due to the nature of my job. They let me have a totally flexible schedule however so I can't complain. I come in late and stay late and can work odd hours if I need.
Sounds like you have the best of both worlds there! You have the flexibility of a work-at-home job but you also get the socialization from going to the office and the quiet "me" time on your drive home. Is your husband's schedule flexible also?
No, his is not at all. He has a very stressful, overworked and underpaid job. His difficulty in finding a better job is part of why I want this to work. He works for the State Troopers and here in Alaska they are responsible for prisoner transport. Unfortunately we have a very large prison population (lots of gangs and drugs here in the cities). He sends out 23 officers every day and figures out which ones need to go to which prisons to pick up prisoners and makes sure everything is scheduled so each one in at the courthouse in time for their arraignments, trials etc. He has to coordinate between the prisons, the officers, the judges, attorneys, U.S. Marshall's etc. He also monitors the prisoners while they are at the courthouse (his command center is in the middle and the cells are all around it), figures out where to place them to avoid fights, monitors all the cameras for the courtrooms, the security gates, outside the building, runs the elevators, doors and responds if anyone pushes a panic button in the courthouse etc. It is a huge job. He even schedules with other states for extraditions. You would think it would be a high level job but it pays quite a bit less than mine.
We also own and run a 4-plex and manage a 6-plex on the side...and I have 2 websites. We have to do all that since the cost of living is so high here.
Ugh! Your husband's job sounds way too stressful. Kuddos to him for being strong enough to handle it! I bet he has lots of interesting stories to tell. Maybe he could start up his own blog!
We looked into doing some real estate also but we just don't have the time or initial investment needed for that right now. Maybe in the future though...
I look forward to checking out your website about vitamin deficiency. I know we need something to help us but I don't know what and so I just buy a multi-vitamin hoping that will help but it doesn't really seem to do anything. Maybe your site will be able to explain things to me a little more to help out. I also need a detox. I just haven't yet. I'm trying to build up the courage to try a 30-day detox. I've heard of people being cured of all sorts of maladies just by fasting. I don't know if I'd be able to go that far though. It's just too hard to fast when you still have to feed the children. :)
I don't have many posts on the nutrition site yet since the pet site is my primary still. I have so much I want to share on the nutrition site though. I could spend the next year writing posts there. I considered going back to school in that field but just don't have the time yet.
Multi-vitamins often don't do much since the amounts of each ingredient are just too low. RDA guidelines are enough to keep you ALIVE not healthy. Therefore, many vitamins and minerals are actually needed in much higher doses than you find in a multi vitamin. There are many reasons why we (as modern Americans) have nutrient deficiencies including overuse of soil in modern agriculture that leaves it stripped of nutrients, storage and shipping that age produce and reduce nutrients, processed foods that are stripped of nutrients, stress, medication, pollution...the list goes on and on. Anyway, most all Americans have nutrient deficiencies now. A piece of fruit or vegetable today has many times less nutrients that the same fruit or vegetable had a generation or two ago. Therefore, it is hard to eat enough to get the nutrients we need unless we grow our own. Check out my site if you are interested. I have some post explaining all this and feel free to let me know here or on a PM message what you are interested in specifically. I might be able to help!
And regarding the real estate...we didn't have any money to invest either but we were able to use my husband's VA loan to buy the 4 plex for zero down. Next we will try to get another building using an FHA loan with a low down.
My favourite aspect of working from home is not having to travel. I literally walk downstairs and I am in my office. My desk faces the garden and I can see the squirrels and birds, although they can be distracting!
That is another awesome part about working from home. During the summer my office is in our sunroom. I love my office!
However, there are days when I wish for the commute that I used to have. There are benefits to having an hour drive home to listen to some music or an audiobook to unwind after work. Between work, the kids, and home responsibilities, there isn't much quiet time for me. My drive home was my "me" time. I am not desperate enough to quit working from home and start driving again though! Luckily, days like this are few and far between. :)
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The best thing about some of those meetings is when they end.
Working from home can have its advantages and the feeling we get when we know we are going to transition away from working for others is hard to beat.
There may be a good niche in home wine deliveries.
It's kind of funny. Later that night I had an ad show up on a website I was visiting for home wine deliveries. I think my house must be bugged. LOL The only problem was they weren't for on-demand deliveries. :( I may have to look into creating one of those!
It can be scary sometimes, I am sure we are being stalked at times, lol.
the idea can be to keep the cellar stocked up for those contingencies.
On-demand wine deliveries, I could see that being a worldwide success, a franchise in every village of note.
Alex