What My Kids Have Taught Me About Working From Home
At the start of this season, I shut up my office space downtown and moved my architecture clinic to the sunporch of my residence. I’d been hitting the sidewalk to drum up work for the prior few decades, and that I was beginning to crack in the strain. So I shut up shop, took my toys and went home. I began thinking of myself as a working father first and a businessman second, third or perhaps ninth. I wanted to work closer to my family. I wished to fulfill my boys at the school bus every day. I wished to go to their football practices and piano classes and gymnastics classes and hip-hop classes. (Could you imagine that the work of architecture more amazing than a room filled with 8-year-olds dancing to Michael Jackson’s”Thriller”? I don’t believe you can.)
So now I work at home. And I put my cell phone in my pocket and take off with all the children every time they need me. My”office” is available from 9 a.m. to 4 pm, while the boys are in school, and then it reopens out of 9 p.m. to 12 a.m., after they go bed.
I will honestly say, this is the best job I’ve ever had. And so far my children have taught me a lot about how to actually run a small business. Here is what I’ve learned.
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Sure, I love working for my customers to help them realize their dreams. That’s why I’m in this profession. But having my children come into my workplace and rub peanut butter on my desk while I do it reminds me what I’m actually working for.
Besides, when I tell them I’m really designing an evil lair, they are nearly young enough to still believe me.