MsPerky

I'm working early hours, since I like to get home early, especially in the spring/summer. So...left at 4, got home at 4:30.

charlie

long day today.. for me anyway, left the house @ 6:15am, got home 6:05, my usual is leave house 7am, home 4:45pm Mon -Fri

DiamondDave2005

I got in at 7:30am, left at 5pm.

I just finished working on a three-day install of Verimove, so I'm wiped. I think I spent a total of 24 hours standing in a cold, noisy server room, so it was really nice to get out and put the top down at 5:00, even though the wind was blowing a lot of debris around.

Roll on retirement!

paS2K

Yeah, but we know that you're rarely working....

JonasM

There was one project that I've been hammering on for weeks now, with problems due to the move to home, move of our servers to St. Paul, etc... I'm sick of it and wanted to finish, so I just hunkered down and with the light at the end of the tunnel, I couldn't stop. At 6:30am, went to sleep for 2 hours, then got up & and finished the few remaining tasks, copied everything to my laptop, and went back to what remains of our office (2 people left until the end of the month, then my test person for one more month) to drop off the programs for testing.

It's actually the main liability of working from home - you take off 20 minutes in the middle of the day to play with your 2 1/2 year old, then make up for it with 2 hours after she goes to bed.

JonasM

Matt_in_VA

On the "other hand", it is nice that you can take that twenty minutes during the course of the day when "she needs her daddy's attention". It is much better than the Harry Chapin tune "Cats in the Cradle"......... You know, "planes to catch, and bills to pay"

ralper

I don't know. I think there's no good way when you have too much work and too few hours.

In tax season I'm in my office from 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 or 11:00 PM. I don't see my wife or kids for days. I don't much like that. Yet on the other hand, when I bring work home, and steal those few minutes during the day, I too find myself working well into the night to get the job done. I'm not sure that those few minutes makes the difference, but being home does.

There is something about working away from home that sort of delineates work time from non work time. Once the work comes home all of your time is potential work time.

I love my cell phone, but now because of it, I'm always "at work". Before, I was sometimes unavailable, now I can always be reached.

paS2K

Not meaning to assume the VSA role Rob, but.....doesn't your cell phone have a 'power off' button? You DO have control....if you make the decision to use it.

I'm available by my office email during work hours, but have always (no matter what position) been generally unavailable after hours. I love the convenience of a cell phone, but it's mostly for OUT-going calls.

I just shake my head at the self-induced stress that many of my current colleagues subject themselves to.....PDA, Bluetooth, pagers, Nextel. Some of the meetings that I attend seem like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony....as the various ringtones announce an important call to an 'important person'.

Yeah, I know......you have to do it b/c the competition does it

JonasM

You're both right, Matt & Rob. There are good and bad aspects. I'll figure out the balance for my situation eventually, though.

JonasM

ralper

[QUOTE=paS2K,Jun 22 2005, 09:58 PM]
Not meaning to assume the VSA role Rob, but.....doesn't your cell phone have a 'power off' button?