Switching from an executive job at 51 to working for myself as an entrepreneur was difficult for me.
It was 1994 – before wide use of cell phones and personal computers. A day job was mostly a day job. There was little work to do after the sun went down and your colleagues were at home.
But, working for myself as a type A individual, I floundered for a couple of years at setting boundaries between work time and personal time. More opportunities (more work) to expand my business was always there – 15-feet from my bedroom.
In 2000, I landed an unexpected job in Manhattan, six blocks from the Towers. That again required some adjustment but gave me more structure work-wise for the next 10 years.
Working from my home in Wisconsin, I would use Messenger to clock in at 8:00 a.m.,
my time to work with my colleagues in New York and around the U..S.A. as a senior online content developer. I signed off at 5:00 p.m. It was one of the first instances of working virtually from home before it became more acceptable 20 years later during the pandemic.
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.* When have you successfully adjusted to new circumstances in your everyday living?
Switching from an executive job at 51 to working for myself as an entrepreneur was difficult for me.
It was 1994 – before wide use of cell phones and personal computers. A day job was mostly a day job. There was little work to do after the sun went down and your colleagues were at home.
But, working for myself as a type A individual, I floundered for a couple of years at setting boundaries between work time and personal time. More opportunities (more work) to expand my business was always there – 15-feet from my bedroom.
In 2000, I landed an unexpected job in Manhattan, six blocks from the Towers. That again required some adjustment but gave me more structure work-wise for the next 10 years.
Working from my home in Wisconsin, I would use Messenger to clock in at 8:00 a.m.,
my time to work with my colleagues in New York and around the U..S.A. as a senior online content developer. I signed off at 5:00 p.m. It was one of the first instances of working virtually from home before it became more acceptable 20 years later during the pandemic.
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.* When have you successfully adjusted to new circumstances in your everyday living?