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[dalt01]

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[jog58]

I like to pretend I don't have a job on my day off.

 

[ADP]

it is my day off..........and guess where i am........yup, in my office. came in around noon to clean up a few things.........how about you? do you go in on your day off or stay as far away as possible?

I pretty much spend most of my days off in Orlando. With that said, I bring my job with me. This darn thing they call an IPhone has my work email and calendar on it. So, not only am I checking my ETicket application, I'm checking my work email, making phone calls, etc.

I guess my answer is both..I stay physically away, but mentally, I'm there.

 

[aggielawyer]

I'm self-employed, so the boundaries between working and not working are very blurred. I realized last year that I have to really go away for me to be 'off.'

 

[dgthree]

I live about an hour from my office, so I don't usually go there on days off, but if I'm off on a weekday and at home, I'll check work emails from time to time. If I'm not home, sometimes I'll check work emails at the beginning or end of the day.

 

[FireDancer]

I'm an I.T. Director so from time to time I have to do some work after hours or on my day off. Usually this is a pre-planned upgrade or a disaster/emergency but they are rare.

I am hourly so when I do any of these, even via VPN from home I punch in and get paid.

 

[DisneyKevin]

My commute is 10 feet.

It's not unusual to answer emails at 3:30am.

 

[Stacy's a freak]

The office has my cell phone and I have a blackberry to access emails from anywhere ... but I don't think about work when it's a non-work day OR if I'm on vacation. I know that they will call me if it is a true emergency and that is fine.

 

[k5jm]

It's not unusual to answer emails at 3:30am.

It is not unusual for me to answer e-mails, remote into the office, go into the office, get phone calls, etc at 3:30am. The pipeline must flow. My job is a 24 hour a day job. My office tuned on international data and roaming on my Blackberry for my last 2 cruises. But, it really is not a job if you enjoy what you do. I love my job!

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

It is not unusual for me to answer e-mails, remote into the office, go into the office, get phone calls, etc at 3:30am. The pipeline must flow. My job is a 24 hour a day job. My office tuned on international data and roaming on my Blackberry for my last 2 cruises. But, it really is not a job if you enjoy what you do. I love my job!

I didn't realize they did this for 1-900 operators Glad to hear you are loving your job!

 

[Tonya2426]

I didn't realize they did this for 1-900 operators Glad to hear you are loving your job!

Bow chicka wow wow

 

[SamSam]

We have our own business, which we run from a home office, which goes with us (laptops) wherever we are. The good part of it is that we can go places and stay much longer, as long as we are connected and work a few hours a day. The down side is, there really is no 'off' time.

 

[jewels1916]

I try to avoid work at all costs when I have a day off. I even avoid my boss (who is also known as Dad).

 

[dpuck1998]

Like most of the nerds, I'm always a phone call away. Since I work for school I only work after hours during upgrades and installs. On vacation I get calls, answer emails, remote in, etc. They are very flexible with my schedule so I don't mind.

 

[exwdwcm]

just had this conversation with a coworker in a meeting this am. Typically, i really strive for a good work/home life balance. last job gave me flexibility (working at home etc.), but that meant also being more available 24/7.

this job, if i get my work done (and usually do) and there isn't a big project or deadline, then i leave my job here at 5pm friday and don't think about it again until 8am monday morning. Sure, we work late when needed, but it isn't needed very often. I enjoy that, it is important for me being a working mom with a little one at home (2yo)---the time I am at home, i really want to focus on my family, not still working.

but 2 years ago, i was working on new year's eve, literally at midnight (and well beyond) trying to launch a new site. THat was when i was the lone marketing ranger at a small company. Never doing that again, still didn't launch on time anyhow.

 

[luke]

I'm a Spanish teacher so days off are restricted to school holidays, but I will often go in to tidy up, get things ready for term, mark books etc.

Last week I'd taken some pupils to Spain for a few days, and when our flight got back into Liverpool at 2pm I went straight into school, even though I didn't have to!!

 

[sshaw10060]

A lot of the expectation of bringing home work hinges on whether you are salaried or hourly. The assumption is that if they are paying you a salary you will do whatever it takes to get the job done. I have to remind my wife every once in a while that they don't pay people the kind of money I make to work 40 hours a week Mon-Fri and not think about their job when they are at home.

I try not to check my work e-mail on weekends because somwhere along the way I realized that all the e-mail I received over the weekend could wait or was negative. I get a lot of "XXXXX screwed up can you please talk to them" e-mails. If I start ruminating on one of these at 2 on a Saturday afternoon it might just ruin the rest of my day off. I am available pretty much 24/7 x 365 by cell or pager. I have decided not to check e-mail for the 3 weeks we are in Eurpope this summer, so that should be interesting. I am going to set up a new account and give a few key people the address in case they really need my input on something. I figure I'll keep in touch that way.

The one thing about my job that drives me nuts is this: I work 7 or 8 weekends a year which is perfectly fine with me. The problem is the rest of the hospital/University pretty much works Mon-Fri. As a result I am lucky if I get one day off these weeks since there is always some meeting to attend or class to teach Tue-Thu when I could take a day off.

 

[Launchpad11B]

Unless I'm on official leave. I'm on call 24/7, 365. To deploy anywhere in the world. So technically I'm never really off duty.

 

[DisneyKevin]

Unless I'm on official leave. I'm on call 24/7, 365. To deploy anywhere in the world. So technically I'm never really off duty.

I could say the same things.

Ok...so my duties are different.

 

[Becx N Gav]

Working in a production/factory environment I can only go during work hours (what a shame ) I'm actually not allowed to work alone in the labs in case something happens. We used to have 3 shifts so I stayed late some days but we're back down to one and half / two shifts. DH on the other hand will get calls and check e-mails as well as doing work in the evenings and at weekends. He will go into work some weekends too, he gets time back but money would be more useful