{"id":3401,"date":"2017-04-28T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2017-05-25T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:25:53","slug":"n-working-home-bliss-stuff-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/ponte-vedra\/n-working-home-bliss-stuff-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018n That: Working from home is bliss but stuff intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Mims Cushing<br \/>\n<\/em><em>mail@floridanewsline.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first thing my son did when he started working full time from home was to get Brodie, a dog. He and I believe leaving a dog alone at home for eight hours is cruel. I feel like shouting \u201cBravo!\u201d when I see on \u201cBark Post&#8221; that a dog has torn up pillows and eaten shoes out of sheer boredom, having been left home alone all day. My favorite show was a dog who chewed up his master\u2019s Playboy. And incidentally do look at \u201cBark Post&#8221; on the internet if you love dogs and need a lift.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working from home is not for everyone. You have to be strict with yourself. Somebody told me that he himself was the toughest boss he\u2019s ever had. If you work from home you need to take a hiccup \u2014 get away from your home office \u2014 once every couple of weeks. Even better is if you go to a conference in California or Arizona. Brodie is sent to a spa, while his master alternates meetings with swimming in a pool, being massaged and networking. Brodie also enjoys swimming in a pool, being massaged and networking. I want to come back as my son\u2019s dog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You must be disciplined if you work on your own. Things in the house are always calling you to \u2014 first of all, eat \u2014 and second, repair, rearrange and refresh, as in throw out. Mostly plants. And then your pajama\/lingerie drawers, and every other drawer in the house, calls out to be straightened up. Your cutlery drawer needs to be dumped and cleaned from the bottom up, probably monthly. How do crumbs get in there when all you do is stack the utensils straight from the dishwasher? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you look out the window from your home office and see that yet another 100 pods have flopped on your pavers and lawn from your two magnolia trees, you must levitate from your chair and march right out there and deal with them. The seeds might turn your pavers a horrid red unless you pick them up quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once they have died, they are black and look like large (here we go again) rats all over your property. As an aside, somebody told me magnolia leaves and pods are not biodegradable and that they are forbidden in at least one community in Ponte Vedra Beach. So help me, before I got permission from the homeowners association, I wanted to chop down my two 50 \u2013 60 foot trees under cover of darkness, and lay them down near my gutters for the haulers to deal with. I\u2019d tell the HOA tribunal,\u201cYessiree, Hurricane Matthew just picked them up and dumped them there. Can you imagine?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back to working from home \u2026 I started researching polls to see how many people telecommute. I think it\u2019s 45 percent, at least for a couple of days. But as I delved more thoroughly, I decided I\u2019d had enough of polls in 2016 to last me a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jim Shea wrote a column for the August 14, 2016, edition of \u201cThe Hour,\u201d a Norwalk, Conn. newspaper titled, \u201cNow that he\u2019s self-employed working from home just got easier.\u201d He ruminates on a feeling of uneasiness you can get when you work from home. \u201cGive this a try,\u201d he says, \u201cWear a tie with the pajamas. Always worked for me.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Personally, I put on earrings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mims Cushing mail@floridanewsline.com The first thing my son did when he started working full time from home was to get Brodie, a dog. He and I believe leaving a dog alone at home for eight hours is cruel. 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