Work From Home Couple

Ah, yes, the first Monday after the end of the holiday season and everyone’s on suicide watch.

At least it seems that way. One of my freelance jobs is to serve as the managing editor of a commercial real estate magazine. Now, everyone agrees that 2009 is going to be one lousy year when it comes to real estate in general. So no one at the magazine is looking forward to that. But the folks here are especially cranky this morning.

I’ve already been accused, basically, of screwing the company because I didn’t have room to run a column in the magazine’s December issue. The column is running in the January issue, but that, apparently, isn’t good enough. If you look up one day and hear that Chicago is on fire, perhaps it’s because I didn’t run this precious legal column in December… or at least that’s what my salesman — who these days can’t sell an ad to save his life — would have you believe.

At the same time, another salesman has called to complain that I haven’t yet run the results of a riveting interview about a commercial broker expanding its office. Whew! That’s some exciting news, an office expansion. I think this particular salesman would like us to reserve the entire issue for this news.

Maybe I’m the crank today. I’m letting the magazine’s ineffective sales staff get on my nerves more than usual. It’s probably a case of the getting-back-to-work-full-time blues kicking in. And I’m sure I’m not alone in this funk.

Ah, well, tomorrow’s Tuesday. We’ll all be used to working again by then, right?

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