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Originally Posted by GODDESS6
i'm self employed too~ but i open my daycare at 6 am, close it at 5 pm~ i can't sleep past 5 am for anything, i don't care if i just went to bed, when it turns 5, my eyes open on their own~ even if i have been tying one on, those damn eyelids, manage to pop right open~
i am very routine-ish~ w/ everything in my life~ i am anal about cleaning & vacuuming everyday, i have to do it or i can't sleep~ i make my bed right when i wake up, even before having to go in for the morning tinkle~
i don't freak tho if things get off track tho, having a kid has taught me tons of patience, i can get things going again w/out a hitch~ & i am one helluva multi tasker  ~ |
I commend you for having all that discipline. Though maybe it's not really discipline if it's what comes natural to you? I don't know.
I have the relative luxury of choosing my own hours simply because I'm a writer. I do have deadlines, but I try to make sure those deadlines don't mean I have to wake up to send something in at 9 AM or something. When I get hired for a long-term project, I usually tell people flat out that if they email me during the day and I don't answer right away, it's not because I'm ignoring them, but because of the hours I keep.
Unless they are paying me a higher rate than usual, of course. Then I will adjust accordingly.
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Originally Posted by chriskisn
Sadly I'm the same although I can usually function by about 10am after a couple of cups of coffee. Sadly I start work at 9am. My manager (there are only two of us in the store) is the same, so any customers turning up before that first coffee are greeted with two surly sarcastic salesmen.
We will even make customers wait while we make a cup of coffee. Anyone who is sitting outside the shop before 9am deserves to be made to wait.  |
Ahhh, I hear ya. I had a "regular" job for a time before I went freelance, where I went into the office right after I herded my kids onto the school bus. I didn't end up actually waking up, though, until around noon. After a time, they closed the office and we all scattered to the four winds and worked from home. I thought at first that this would be excellent - work in my pajamas! I don't have to brush my hair, because no clients will be here! No one can tell my surly-cos-I'm-too-tired-to-give-a-damn-about-your-problems tone of voice via email! Huzzah!
Wrong! I found that, for that particular job - and I think this is likely a problem a lot of work from home types that aren't their own boss experience - is that my superiors decided that since I was at home, that meant I was ALWAYS at work. If they emailed me at midnight and I didn't reply right away, it was like, "Where are you?????" Pfft, back off.