morgan98
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 29, 2010
I have a dedicated office (and two other spaces I work from), three monitors and no kids so I should not have anything to complain about working from home one would think.
But it has still not been easy. While I do not miss the commute in Atlanta traffic at all and everything related to that, I have had a hard time maintaining boundaries. I get some of that is on me. However, due to the nature of my role, we have had so many more projects, initiatives and various other things come up because of COVID. First it was furloughs and worried about clients not potentially paying bills to now being able to find and hire enough staff. And trying to keep staff. Anyway, in my experience working from home has meant calls earlier in the morning and later into the evening. Sure, I guess I could just say no, but I am not ready to do that quite yet.
I also need to take more PTO. While in non COVID I generally on a couple of good vacations a year. Now, not so much.
Over the past six weeks I have taken two overnight work trips and I have to admit that some work travel and change of scenery was very nice.
But it has still not been easy. While I do not miss the commute in Atlanta traffic at all and everything related to that, I have had a hard time maintaining boundaries. I get some of that is on me. However, due to the nature of my role, we have had so many more projects, initiatives and various other things come up because of COVID. First it was furloughs and worried about clients not potentially paying bills to now being able to find and hire enough staff. And trying to keep staff. Anyway, in my experience working from home has meant calls earlier in the morning and later into the evening. Sure, I guess I could just say no, but I am not ready to do that quite yet.
I also need to take more PTO. While in non COVID I generally on a couple of good vacations a year. Now, not so much.
Over the past six weeks I have taken two overnight work trips and I have to admit that some work travel and change of scenery was very nice.