Back To The Office
Post written by: beagooddad
This week I have a work assignment that will actually force me out of the house and into the office with a crappy commute (an hour’ish each way). It is only a 3-4 day assignment but after a year of the basement with only a couple days to my consulting company’s main office (about 35 minutes each way), I’m not ready for a real commute.
Hopefully I’ll remember to put the Sirius radio back in the car and hopefully the next assignment after this will let me retreat back to the basement.
I really feel bad for BeAGoodMom this week, though. After a year of having me around to share the computer room and to get kids off the bus if she ended up on a long conference call and me being home and on parenting duty as soon as my job shift was done, my getting sent back to the real work force happens to coincide with our kids’ spring break. She’ll probably be pretty ready for this coming weekend.
In a strange bit of cosmic karma amazement, I’m pretty sure that the guy I will be reporting with at this assignment is the guy who left a company I was working at back in 1999. When he left, I was able to switch departments from a data entry job into IT. Now nearly 9 years later, I think that I will see him again.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Its weird when things happen like that!!
March 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Can’t wait to hear more details about the meeting. Hope all goes well, would be strange to leave what you are use to doing.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Welcome to the grind. I hope everything goes well with you and your family.
Paul
March 30th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Wow. Your telecommuting has spoiled you. I’m sure elsewhere on your blog you wax grateful that your consulting job allows you to spend your life in your basement. Although this has probably tampered with your social skills (and perhaps given your child a false sense of what it means to be an adult– as it did when my father “retired” at age 54) this is really a luxury with which most of us are not blessed. Along with pay Sirius radio that is so taxing to drag along on that occasional commute. Geesh.