Reverse Telecommuting

Monday, November 21st, 2005 | Uncategorized

So people have been asking how my first day at work went today. Which seems odd to me since I already explained it’s not really work. So I thought I would break it down in easily understandable terms of what I actually do.

My job is contract work. A contract that I wrote, one that says I will be paid to show up, paid extra to actually work, and showing up is optional.

I would consider what I do there to be “Reverse Telecommuting”. I’m sure you all know that telecommuting is getting paid to doing business work from home. So when we reverse it we get a job where you get paid to do personal work at your business.

Still confused huh? Hey don’t worry, it happens to all the mooncalf’s.
Here was what I did today in 10 easy steps.
1) I showed up (according to contract this part is no longer required, but helps if I want to be paid)
2) Got the key from the crazy owner (while trying very hard not to get in discussion about the end of the world)
3) I setup my laptop & plugged in my terabyte (crappy laptop, needs terabyte to compensate)
4) Owner left for court, but as he was leaving he told me I could work on one job that was already there and would apparently be VERY time consuming to fix. (yes I said court…)
5) Got msg from friend asking what I was doing (so I invited him over)
6) Wrote actual contract in notepad (made sure to add part about not needing to show up)
7) Discuss store’s slovenliness (while adding speakers to my laptop for slightly better mp3 quality)
8) Fix all that ails computer (10 mins, fixed all the software problems, still can’t fix the fact that the hardware is an e-machine)
9) Balance checkbook (I’d tell you what it came out to, but the results aren’t really in my favor)
10) 3 hours up, owner back, wrote up daily contract invoice to computer store and left with friend fro lunch (Made $65 today for “3 hours work”)

The rest of my day after work consisted of, Drinking some beer, eating some (beer) brats, watching a movie, playing a videogame, downloading tv shows I did not watch tonight, sitting in hottub, and (soon) going to sleep.

Now that you have read about my “day at work”, I’m sure you will no longer feel the need to ask me how my day went. Doing so will probably only piss you off, as you are not afforded the same luxury of paid sloth.

I am not going in to work again till probably wednesday, where I will probably have more time to work on my website. I would have today but having a friend over for pretty much my entire work day only allowed for me to finish quick tasks like fixing a computer, balancing my checkbook and discussing the end of the world (when the mail lady showed up with army surplus catalogs).

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