Pro #5 – Being Available Every Second of Every Day
This last week especially I’ve found myself out of the house more often than at the computer. Don’t get me wrong, this is a very good thing. Those first couple of weeks I don’t think I left my desk once except to go make some fried chicken and pay my rent. I was glued to the chair and my carpals were shouting at me to go jog or watch a movie.
But, it’s hard to get up and moving when you feel like you’ve got so many opportunities staring you in the face that might disappear if you step out for more than 10 minutes. Thankfully my initial paranoia has subsided and now I’m left to do as I please more or less whenever I please.
It’s a side effect that I originally looked forward to more than anything else, the vast amounts of free time I’d have when I stopped working so much. Now though, it’s finally beginning to sink as my writing falls into a gentle rhythm and some semblance of a schedule (albeit not nearly a set schedule). I can get a phone call anytime of any day during the week and I’m free almost immediately to go and do something. If I have a meeting with a friend or someone I’m working with I’m the most amenable person in the world. They could want to meet downtown and I’m okay with that because I have the time to take the bus down and back, no problem.
My chicken frying part timer is almost the same. If I want a day off, say the Superbowl for instance, I can just ask for the day off and anytime this month I can add on an extra shift to my week and make up the hours so as I retain my insurance (a whopping 60 hours a week to do so). I could probably just work a full time week and then 3 days the next week then have the rest of the month off if I felt like it.
Yes, the flexibility of self-sufficiency and employment initiated on my end of the line is amazing. Of course there is that one downside; go out too much and I’m up until 4 in the morning getting caught up and checking my emails.
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