So, as you know, I’ve been back at work for 6 weeks or so and I’ve fallen back into that normal routine. Wake up, get caffeine, go to work, get caffeine, eat lunch and make sure to drink something large, bubbly, and full of caffeine, crash around 2pm, suck it up till I go home, fall asleep on the couch, wake up and eat dinner, think about everything I should be doing for an hour or so, and then jump in the bed and fall asleep. That’s the life. Except now I’ve started a business. So sitting around and thinking about doing something instead of actually doing it has more consequences than just not doing anything. Especially since my ultimate goal is to work from home full-time. My house is like some sort of anti-work zone. Just ask anyone who’s been there. You try and accomplish something when there are 10 other more interesting things that can be done using little to no brain power.

Judging by my personality I’m pretty sure I was built for management. I work hard in small bursts and I’m great at knowing what needs to be done. Just not actually doing it. That part is best left for someone else. Not working for myself all the time is starting to get bothersome. While I’m at work, doing my job actually bothers me. Sure, it makes my day go about 5 times faster when I’m working. But when I’m not working I can just stare at my computer and think about all the wonderful things that I’ll be doing when my business takes off and I can work from home. Just as an example, I could have a few beers with lunch! Now doesn’t that sound exciting? There would be nothing to stop me, except that meeting at 1pm with a client that requires some driving. We’ll worry about that later.

I think my favorite part would be sleeping in every day. And the traditional 40-hour work week would become the “I’m sleeping in for 3 more hours”-“It’s time to take a nap”-“Oh, I like this movie”-“I need to make a beer run”-“I’ll play for just one hour, OK?”-“Sweet Water for lunch and dinner?” -“I could go on forever”-“40 hour” work week. Hey, as long as the work gets done right? Right now it’s hard to get all of that work done. Especially when I get home from work and just want to go to sleep. I have things to do but going to sleep becomes a priority.

In other unrelated-but-exciting news – I have another idea for another business and it’s awesome. And you should be excited – even though I’m not going to talk about it here until it’s more developed. I just thought that you should know that I have way too many things that I want to do and not enough time to do them. And what I mean by “not enough time” is “I’ll be asleep when I could be working on it.” But I have a feeling it’ll get done in between work-work, at-home-work, and sleep.

On-topic again – another depressing thing about the 40-hour/week gig is the REALLY HUGE GIGANTIC (sarcasm!) two weeks per year of vacation that I get. And since I just started working, what if I need a day off? I’d have to take vacation and then call in sick, for the same day. Fantastic. So fantastic that it makes me not want to ever work from home and make my own hours. Not even a little bit. I’d like to have only 2 weeks off a year for the rest of my working-life. Who needs more than that? Not me, certainly not you. I know you’re not doing anything that warrants more than 2 weeks of vacation a year. Unless you’re coming to visit me, in which case I recommend you quit your job and move to my area, so you can stay longer than the allotted 2 weeks.