A Freelancer’s (wry) Look at Getting Things Done

suejeff — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Getting everything done as a work at home freelancing writer mother of six grown up children and thirteen grandchildren is not easy. While I try to keep to a strict schedule at least four days a week, you can bet your life those are the days somebody needs me.

Being Needed

It’s nice to be needed but not so much that you end up needled because you are not doing the things that you had planned. I have a method of operation on those four days where I work for an hour and take half an hour off for most of the day. If my RA is playing up then I may need to work an hour on and an hour off to rest my wrists and hands.

I find that social media sites such as Twitter can be seductive and you’re tempted to watch the stream and click interesting links, because they’ve got to be more interesting than the upteenth finance article. I try to keep my twittering for my off times but occasionally I break my own rule and then I sit up half the night trying to claw back the lost time.

You Can’t Teach a Very Old Dog

Oh I forgot to mention our dog. He is now fifteen years old and I think he is a little senile. If he doesn’t want to go out but has to go for his stomach’s sake, he chunters at me or my husband for the whole walk, it’s a sort of stop start growly grunty sound. He does the same thing when he doesn’t get enough of foods that he is not supposed to have. When he wants to interrupt my work time he tries to get his head on my laptop to stop me typing.

Getting things done for a sixty something, arthritic freelancer with a large family and a dopy, possibly senile dog, is not a simple process as you might imagine, but somehow, I still manage to make a living.

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A Freelancer’s (wry) Look at Getting Things Done

Being Needed

You Can’t Teach a Very Old Dog