Not really looking for advice or anything, but had an interesting day today that wasn't exactly what I planned and just thought I'd share.
As many of you know I left my job at international insurance mega corp last May to work for a much smaller UK based company that is working hard to get traction in the US in my particular specialty after building a decent amount of that business in the London insurance market over the last 20 years. The US subsidiary of my newish employer is so small that they don't have a San Francisco office, which is pretty rare for insurance companies. Consequently, I now work from home, for the first time in my life. My boss is in Chicago. For the most part I have LOVED working from home. Off the top of my head there are a bunch of reasons:
-I'm an introvert so not having to interact face to face with people every day is a plus.
-The time I used to waste chatting with coworkers at the coffee machine or whatever is now spent doing things like putting laundry in the washer
-I don't have to suffer San Francisco's abysmal transit system on a daily basis
-I get interrupted a lot less, especially in the afternoon since a lot of the people I have to interact with are on the east coast so they go home shortly after I get back to work after lunch, which allows me to focus on underwriting tougher accounts without interruption
Today I was struggling to stay focused after lunch (and had a few things I REALLY wanted to get done today) so I switched pandora to the 80's dance music channel. (The classical music channel just wasn't cutting it.) Shortly after that I texted a dear friend that working from home benefit #254 was being able to blast 80's dance music while I worked and not have anyone complain. About ten minutes later I realized that while I had indeed gotten past the post lunch malaise I was in fact not working, and instead dancing around the room and hitting the repeat button everytime my favorite dance song from the late 80's was about to end. And I will be likely be singing this incessant tidbit from Evelyn Thomas's "High Energy" all weekend:
Bum bum bum. badum bum. Bum bum badum badum bum bum. <repeat 500 times in seven minutes alternating up and down a half step each time>
Don't go searching out the song if you've never heard it. I don't want to be held responsible for putting a major earworm in your head.
Monday morning I will need to get started working a bit earlier than usual. I have a bunch of things that I had hoped to deal with today that I just didn't get to for some reason.