Because I have a wonderful spouse who works days, that's when I choose to work. Also, the clients I deal with are more or less corporates – again, they work weekdays.

I remember having one client who hinted quite a lot about my working through a long holiday weekend. If I were being paid extra, sure. But because the lack of planning on that side was the cause – sorry. I'll accommodate you when I can. My long weekends are "me" time.

I can usually accomplish my writing and editing assignments during "usual" office hours, but as long as I meet deadlines, I can choose to work evenings.

I also work as an administrative assistant for a building contractor 700 miles from here. Because of the nature of his work, often early mornings, evenings and weekends are the only times he has to take care of office work. My flexibility as a freelancer is the reason I've worked for him for about 15 years.

That said, I'm always striving for better management of my time.

Knowing that I'm much more productive post-noon, I've finally stopped getting overly angst-y at my relative lack of morning accomplishments, but I still find myself working way too late at night & too often on weekends.

Back when I worked for the military, the operative term for this phenomenon was "mission creep" — even the smallest tasks morphing into larger & more time-consuming activities.

Suffice it to say that I consider myself more than sufficiently mission-creeped 🙂

My work hours are very irregular — and recently they've been very sparse. This style isn't working for me, I need to start setting short-term and long-term goals for myself and have more discipline about working a certain number of hours every day, or maybe every week.

I work very hard when I have actual assignments, but when the only thing scheduled is to send out more inquiries and job apps that I expect to be fruitless… I have a harder time getting on my game face.

That said, my lovely wife and I spent virtually the entire three-day weekend holed up in our home offices. I've filed a motion, I got my ex-wife's cross-motion on Thursday, and my reply certificate is due this week. So I was cranking hard — for a "break," I posted on my blog.

There's potentially a lot of money at stake, and I feel good about where we are with our reply, so I'm glad I put in the time. The beautiful weather was very welcome, even though we experienced it primarily through our open windows.

TMI? Ah, whatever. Thanks again for the mention Lori.

It usually works, but if I run into a jam, there's not much I can do about it. So I mostly don't work weekends, but, alas, sometimes I must.

Lori, I posted a link to your "Clients Primer" post on Inked-In; I know several fellow members have come back here to read it, so … you're welcome!