I suck at setting boundaries. Unlike the seals over there, I don’t do such a good job at defending my territory. I’ll pretty much give up my ground to anyone who asks for it.
Over the years, I’ve simultaneously gotten worse and better at boundary setting. Personally, I’m much better at saying No, I can’t do [...]
Benefits for me, the worker… I could enumerate the gazillion reasons it’s good for the environment, but that post’s been written. Like 4,000 times.
So there are roughly a bazillion reasons I love working from home.
Here are the top 10.
Right now anyway.
I’m so much more efficient, it boggles the mind.
I get to see Megan, who has [...]
I love getting pats on the head. (No, not literally.)
Someone telling me I did something well makes me feel good, makes me want to do it again, makes me want to do it even better the next time.
And, from what I’ve seen around my work and around my life, other people like pats on the [...]
Not owing any tax $, even though it means I lost a bucket in the market.
My colleagues, who I enjoy greatly.
My boss.
The picture of Hettie and Ada (this year’s holiday card) that I have next to my desk that makes me smile every time I see it.
My future mother-in-law’s humorous side.
Since my first day at Embolden, Angelina (a goodbye gift from my colleagues at AIDS Care Ocean State) has protected my desk. She has been abducted and recovered, hanged and saved, and threatened more times than I can enumerate. But through it all, she has stood by, multiple weapons at the ready, on the front [...]
