'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Once you lay out the pleasures of your current life vs. the potential commute it really sounds like no contest, javachik. Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Scrappy, I'm so glad your mom is starting to feel better.
Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Bingo. This is what I am hoping may happen. I'd actually be reporting to someone who reports to him, and I haven't met her yet. So we shall see. Thanks for listening, peoples! Writing it out actually makes it more black and white for me. I tried writing a pros and cons list and found myself scrawling "commute" under "con" like five times and giving up.
Life is too short to be miserable at work. OTOH, a ton of folks I work with in DC and here work 6-3 or whatever. Which, if one can drag oneself out of bed at that hour, does manage to avoid a lot of the traffic.
But I couldn't do it, myself. So I work nearby and take the bus, thus putting the time to good use listening to podcasts and audiobooks.
Do they have age categories, Consuela?
Nope, just Advanced/Intermediate/Beginner. And my climbing partner just bailed on me, so I guess I'm not going. Might see if I can convince my sister to watch more Shakespeare tonight...
Oh, yeah. I liked her.
joy is the best pay.
I'll just say, that's only true if there is also money. Which, obviously, there is for javachik as a consultant.
I just found myself quoting Don Draper's, "That's what the MONEY is for!" again the other day.
I think my weekend plans are to sleep a lot and try not to login to work more than once. Maybe I'll make some hummus.
I need to do a bunch of cooking, somehow, and probably throw out the lettuce I never ate last week.
Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
I might go back with WFH full time except when specifically needed in the office. Is there any job related reason (leaving aside any company culture issues, which are another matter) that that wouldn't work? If you can telecommute at all it seems like it might be a possibility.
I might go back with WFH full time except when specifically needed in the office. Is there any job related reason (leaving aside any company culture issues, which are another matter) that that wouldn't work? If you can telecommute at all it seems like it might be a possibility.
Yeah, I have no idea except that J (the chief medical officer) says telecommuting is a "definite possibility" in his email. I don't know how often that means, though. The person I'd report to just also sent me an enthusiastic email and wants to meet me on Tuesday for an informal talk. So, I will get much of a picture of company culture then. In any case, I am looking forward to meeting her. (I treat all interviews as networking opportunities.) I have no desire to be rich in life, so throwing a lot of money at me doesn't really work. :)
Tonight's $25,000 Pyramid awesomeness from Dick Clark (after a 4th of July patriotic poem from Nipsy Russell): "You know what's nice about the 80s? It's nice to be so proud of your country!"