My new(ish) job...
Doing well and enjoying it but today we had a meeting with the owners and we agreed to take a day off every week to help makes ends meet. It's not an issue financially so I'm happy to go along with it but stuff like this can go South very quickly.
There's also talk of packing up the office into shipping containers and everybody working from home. That could be less than two weeks away. I've done some testing and I can work from home but it wont be as smooth as office. They can divert the phones to our mobiles so from the customers point of view nothing has changed.
I worked from home for 16 years in my last job and it's not as good as you may think.
You end up working longer than normal hours and anxiety can set in if you don't make the effort to get out more.
My daily walks helped with that but sometimes I really had to make an effort to get out of the house.
Anyway... I feel grateful that the owners aren't just shutting up shop and at least I have a living wage coming in.
What options do we really have when something like this happens?
Like it or not we all have to make do.
