Work From Home Couple

The last two weeks of December are tough. No one wants to work. I don’t want to work, either. Unfortunately, if I don’t work, I don’t get paid.

That’s one of the challenges when you work for yourself from home: You can take as many days off as you want, but no one’s going to pay you when you don’t turn in your assignments.

Sometimes — rarely, I admit, but sometimes — I envy those folks who do work a traditional office job. These last two weeks of the year, it seems, none of them are working. I should know: Whenever I call them to get a quote or two for my newspaper or magazine feature stories, I only get voice mail. But because they work on salary, they still get paid, whether they’re at home sipping eggnog or at the office slaving away.

Now, when you work for yourself from home, you have to work around all the holiday hubbub. I don’t get my paychecks if I don’t turn in any stories. I can’t afford, especially with as tough a year as 2008 has been, to take two weeks and slack off. I still have to work, which is a drag during the holidays.

This week is especially tough. We have friends in town from Texas. It’d be easy to take these days completely off and play cards, chat and have a beer or two. Unfortunately, I’m working. Now, it’s not a full day of work, but, still, it’s work, and, like I say, it’s a real drag.

Oh, well, the holidays are over soon. Then I can go back to snickering at all those poor souls who have to travel to an office every day.

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