Work From Home Couple

I sometimes wonder how much work people let slip away when they work full time in an office. I wonder because I know I let what seems like a lot of work fall to the wayside as I work from home.

There are certain weeks, like this one, where some jobs take over. This week, I’m in production on the real estate trade magazine that I serve as editor. This means I’m writing stories, proofing the work of my staff writer and columnists, laying out pages and selecting photos. It’s time consuming and, I admit, extremely tedious.

Unfortunately, it takes up most of my work day.

That means the other work I want to do — interviews for freelance feature stories, posts for my blogs and, perhaps most regrettably, scripting for a short comicbook story I’m writing and for a comicbook mini-series I’m working on — get pushed to the backburner.

The sad thing is, I enjoy all those other jobs so much more. Equally sad is the fact that this one job that I enjoy least pays more than any of my others.

It’s all part of the juggling act that work-from-home freelancers have to do, though. Just because some work is more enjoyable doesn’t mean it’s more important. Maybe this is the way it is with full-time office workers, though when I worked in an office, the only work I really wanted to do was to master computer hearts. (I actually became quite good at this game. Even in real life. The trick is finding enough other players to form a foursome.)

So do take heart when you find yourself stuck tackling a project that you hate. If it’s paying the bills, that’s all you can really ask for.

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