Work Habits

My co-workers view this morning at Monticello, NY.

I know that I mentioned that I would post an obnoxious amount of posts this week, but apparently I am a big fat liar. But no my pants are not in fire.

It has been a hard HARD summer to get through so far, and it isn't even over. There are a lot of things that have me down about work, and it gets really hard to shake them. There have been a lot of bad attitudes, complaints, and overall lack of detail. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't hear practically everything anyone says. My boss always jokes that I have the ears of a rabbit.

But there are some pretty great things about my job; one being that I get to work from home whenever I want to. So this morning when I woke up, I decided to do just that. I left the PJ's on, made a cup of coffee, and logged into my email at 6am.

When I work from home:  

• I have like 7 cups of coffee, no joke, but I am never wired or hyper.
• I eventually change, but always back into comfy clothes like yoga pants. 
• I take a 2 hour long lunch.
• Said lunch consists of taking a shower and a nap.
• My TV does not go on until two or so.
• I work until the late hours of the evening, but only because I have taken that nap or two.
• I tend to get caught up on a lot of personal stuff.
• I listen to my music loudly, and sing very poorly to it. 
• If I come across a  good song, I take a dance break. Life needs more dance breaks.
• I am literally on less of my social media when I work at home than when I am in the office.
• There is no foot to mouth filter! I literally just say what I need to.
• I rarely tell my boss, until he asks if he asks. 

I never remember how nice it is to work from home until I actually do. What does your daily routine look like if and when you work from home? 

#9to5totalsocial - My 9 to 5

I will not lie, it took me quite a while to decide to do this post today. In fact I had a separate post that went out today as well. So my readers you get two.

The  reason why it has taken me a while to actually decide to create this post and be a part of the link up is because I have wanted nothing more than to burn my 9 to 5 to the ground the past three days. I have gone from having a good hour to silently sobbing at my desk for two hours straight. But in an effort to remind myself why I should not quit, I thought I would share what I do.

There is no easy way to describe what my actual 9 to 5 is but I will give it a try. I work for a moving company/ broker that specializes in vehicle shipments. In other words, my company moves cars. We arrange moves for  individual corporate cars for employees of places like Nvidia, Hasbro, and US Airways when they are moving one of their employees. Our company also works closely with Jaguar Land Rover of North America to help the move and management of their  event shows. Thus why I was able  to play with fancy cars in Austin.

Exhibit A: Fancy car. 

New Jaguar F-Type Coupe- Photo By Manny Mendez Photography (aka one of my coworkers who is a bad ass photographer)

My company has a total of 4 Employees. Thats right, only 4! At one point we had five but that guy was a moron and we haven't re-hired for that position yet. I report directly to the President of the company, who happens to be like an adopted dad to me. And we have two employees that are offsite working from other states. But in at any given day if I need to work from home, I can. Which makes it nice when I am off housesitting for someone with a special needs dog. 

Here is my little cubicle that I call home for 40+ hours a week. Yea it is messy, but this was during the two hours of silent sobbing. 

My job title is technically "Logistics Specialist" but it has never really been just that for the 5 years that I have worked here. I actually tried to change it to "Director of Internal Affairs" but decided that my $15 or so an hour was not enough for a director title, and "office biatch" apparently is too inappropriate to put on a business card. So are peasant and peon, by the way. At my company I handle all of our corporate account moves which average 80 vehicles a month during the slow season, pretty much everything accounting related, I act as the liaison for the HR company, and pretty much anything my boss does not want to handle. So there are a lot of hats placed on this head, and none of them are a freaking tiara.

But that is not all my friends. I know by now you are thinking one of three things: 
1.) Wait that's it? She complains way too much on Twitter for this? 
2.) HOLY COW GIRL! Do you ever get days off?? (The answer is no for the record.) 
3.) I still don't know what you do, but I really don't think that there could be more than this. 

Well I am also a part of two committees with our sister company. They are the Culture Connection (we do all of the fun stuff for birthdays, potlucks and random holidays) and the Community Involvement Team (community service and other do good/volunteer items). These take on a lot of time, and participation. Right now my focus is to put our Community Involvement Team back on track since we were forced by the executives to take a break. But together both committees take on an additional 20-30 hours a month. 

As much as I have bad days, low pay, and negative attitudes around me. I still don't think I would trade it for another job. I have thought about it once or twice, and even went as far as starting to take education classes to become a teacher. But I never have. There are always benefits that keep me coming back. 

-I get a bonus every year (whoop whoop) that is always given at the most opportune moment. 
-My boss takes me out to lunch at least once a month, and it is always somewhere good. 
-I get to see two of my best and closest friends every day! To me they are practically my cool older sisters that I never had. 

Plus we all love mustaches and making up reasons to drink. 

- My boss always is amazed when I come up with a cool Idea or app that we can all use. And I am often applauded and praised by him when I do. 
- I get to work a flexible schedule. Which means if I want to need to work I can, and sometimes from the comfort of my house. But if I have a 3 hour appointment during the middle of the day, I have no problem going to it. 
- I can work from anywhere I have phone access and an internet signal. Which allows me to go see my mom at least once a year.

So there are a few things that remind me that in the end, it can all be worth it.  I just have to work hard, and remind myself that the bad days are only few and far between. I can go places here , and better yet create where I go.

What is your #9to5 ?