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9 years ago
Life is good. Job is good (which is not something I have been able to say about my employment in YEARS). Home is good. Husband is amazing, as always. Friends are amazing. There's not much more a girl could ask for.
Well.
Art is...uh. Sporadic. I'm not gonna blame my supposed muse, who has been hitting the inside of my head with a sledgehammer of awesome ideas on every drive home from work. My muse is working overtime. My motivation, however, is usually nonexistent: though I like my job a lot, by the time I get home from my eight-hour day (which is really a 9- or 10-hour day, if you include my lunch -- where I don't generally leave my office [not that I mind, just it's not practical for my job] -- and my commute) and do household chores and consume food and attempt to relax, it's time to go to bed and start the whole process over. I'm not gonna make excuses; I'm going to try to find more time in my life to work on art. There's a satisfaction to art that I miss tremendously, and I want to get back into it.
I'm not going to make any promises, though -- this is my own thing. If I owe you a commission, I have not forgotten about you! But, there's a reason I don't take payment upfront generally. Thank you immensely for your patience :)
Well.
Art is...uh. Sporadic. I'm not gonna blame my supposed muse, who has been hitting the inside of my head with a sledgehammer of awesome ideas on every drive home from work. My muse is working overtime. My motivation, however, is usually nonexistent: though I like my job a lot, by the time I get home from my eight-hour day (which is really a 9- or 10-hour day, if you include my lunch -- where I don't generally leave my office [not that I mind, just it's not practical for my job] -- and my commute) and do household chores and consume food and attempt to relax, it's time to go to bed and start the whole process over. I'm not gonna make excuses; I'm going to try to find more time in my life to work on art. There's a satisfaction to art that I miss tremendously, and I want to get back into it.
I'm not going to make any promises, though -- this is my own thing. If I owe you a commission, I have not forgotten about you! But, there's a reason I don't take payment upfront generally. Thank you immensely for your patience :)
Benefits to the employee, three day weekends all the time, one less pair commuting trips per week.
Benefits to the company. One less days worth of breaks to lose productivity. one less days worth of setting everything up to start working and getting yourself going in the morning per week, one less days worth of shutting everything down and cleaning up for the end of the day. So an additional hour of so of actual productive work per employee per week.
Obviously, this doesn't work for all jobs. Generally they set it up so there is a portion of workers who work m-th, a portion that work Tu-F, and some that work M-F 8 hour days in office type jobs. For a production line enviroment, everyone still has to start and stop work at the same time, so it's harder to implement. But if they do it, it means that they have an additional day per week for maintenance on the production equipment, reducing unplanned downtime.
The ten hour work day thing in retail store settings, open seven days per week, works really well, once the new system is understood and the kinks get ironed out. Some stores the workers work four days on, four days off. Which means they get an even and predictable rotation of weekends off. If they allow workers to swap shifts and the overtime laws allow them to remain on straight time instead of overtime, a clever worker can setup a week long vacation eight to ten times per year without using any vacation time.
Allowing workers to flex their work hours, i.e. as long as you are on the clock for the 40 hours per week, your work gets done, and you are in during the defined core business hours greatly improves workers lives. So if you oversleep your alarm, or get stuck in traffic and you are an hour late to get in, you just work an extra hour someplace else during the week to make up.
I do this at my job, I have a longish commute, and traffic is always unpredictable. So I deliberately try to come in early and work a little late early in the week so that I have an hour or so cushion for traffic delays later in the week, and I often am able to leave work a little early on friday once I complete my 40 hours. Or like today, I had a dentist appointment. Instead of burning a couple hours of my limited sick time, I'll work extra for the rest of the week to save that sick time for when I'm really sick and need to take a day or two to recover.
I do, and happily so:)
I don't usually get more than an hour or two per day to get anything done right now and am just sleeping less to steal a bit more time. That's bad advice though!