Is the song stuck in your head now? Are you even old enough to remember Loverboy?
Since I took the first part of this week off to host my mom, I’ll be pulling out the laptop this weekend to do some work. Fortunately, lots of work came in while she was here (and she was here 3 1/2 days, so I’m doing the happy dance). I secured three more projects without lifting a finger to do so, and I have one more in the works. Another was just a joke – $5 a post for a weblog requiring research and a few hundred words twice a day. Uh, no.
You guys know me. I don’t normally work weekends. But in this case my guilt won over my need for a weekend. Actually, I don’t need a weekend since I just got back to work. Therefore, the only time I’m taking off is Sunday at Steelers kickoff time. I might even watch that other PA team since I’m sitting in their territory….
Since the man has his weekends off and we covet our time together, there are only a few times I’ll give up my weekends. They are:
– When I’ve not worked much of the week prior to the weekend.
– When a project is critical and I’m being paid for those weekend hours.
– When I’ve messed up and have to deliver on time (that’s happened once or twice).
– When I know I won’t be around the following week and the client needs it now.
I know some of you do work weekends, but most don’t. What are your reasons for forfeiting time off? And if you do work weekends, when do you get time off? Do you?
Thanks for the earworm, Lori–I’ll be tormented all day! My weekend work philosophy is pretty simple: I will work a weekend if I feel like it, but I don’t normally feel like it. There has only been one occasion when I worked the weekend and didn’t feel like it (procrastinating client with looming deadline), but I got paid for it and learned to better manage that client by padding due dates and being more vocal when I’m not getting what I need from them.
I’m older ‘n dirt, so of course I remember that song! I don’t work weekends unless my own procrastination or crazy schedule demands it. Kudos on all the new good work!
Remember it? I used to turn it up full blast after work on Fridays! *laughing*
As I’ve said before, as someone who’s worked on Broadway for years, I never had weekends OR HOLIDAYS off. Monday was my dark day.
As it is now, I have floating days off. I don’t designate them. I take off whenever I want, provided I’ve met my deadlines.
I actually prefer to be at my desk while everyone else is racing around catching up on errands they couldn’t do during the week. It’s quieter.
I rarely date men who are locked in to a 9-5 existence, so that’s not an issue. My men and I take the time when the mood strikes! 😉
That’s not a deliberate decision, it’s just the way it works out.
However, I am not available to those from the 9-5 world on weekends without appropriate compensation. Weekends are for fiction and plays.
Unless I’m covering a sports event, of course! 😉
Old enough to remember that song, but barely… LOL.
I work at least a little most weekends. Usually it’s a few blog posts for a client or something easy like that, but sometimes it’s a larger project. (In fact, last night I was up until 5am finishing a project.)
Weekends are my catch-up time — if I spent more time at the barn than I planned, or got together with my mom (she takes Fridays off), I use the weekend to catch up where I’ve fallen behind. Like you, my husband has weekends off, but I resolve this by working after he goes to bed.
I don’t work Saturdays, usually, nor Sunday either, except I will start Monday’s jobs on Sunday evening just to get a head start. And I take naps during the week 😉
Gotta love the flexibility of our lives, eh Katharine?
Anne, I think we should become advocates for siestas. ;))
Absolutely, Lori — and I take full advantage of it, too. :o)
I like taking my naps in the morning… tacked onto the end of my night’s sleep. ;o) But I’m a big fan of afternoon naps when I have to get up early! (Like today — ugh)