{"id":1997,"date":"2010-11-13T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-11-13T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:52:28","slug":"its-work-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Work to Work!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1998\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1998\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1998\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?fit=980%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"980,508\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1287596553&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"My Office Is In There\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;This is a building known as IAB, one of a whole bunch of buildings in northern Idaho Falls. My office is in the middle of the building &amp;#8230; a cubicle with no drawers or storage space. It&amp;#8217;s a shared cubicle as well. However, I spend so little time in my office, it isn&amp;#8217;t a problem &amp;#8230; so far.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;My Office Is In There&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?fit=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?fit=604%2C313&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1998\" title=\"My Office Is In There\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=300%2C155&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My Office Is In There\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=150%2C77&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_3179.jpg?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Office Is In There<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had an interesting time getting re-acclimated to the daily working grind. For the past three years I&#8217;ve been pretty much in charge of my own very flexible schedule. Today, however, my schedule is now quite rigid!<\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;m up at 5:15 a.m. and out the door by 6:30 a.m. and in the office by 7:30 a.m. My last meeting of the day starts at 4:00 p.m. and often runs until 6 p.m. or even later. That puts me back home between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Those are very long days!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of doing the driving, though. It&#8217;s right at one hour each way. I can make two round trips and one one-way trip on a tank of gasoline. I&#8217;m being very well paid for this contract, but I&#8217;m putting lots of miles on my little car! I&#8217;m going to start looking for a van pool or something like that where I don&#8217;t have to drive and can use the time in a much more productive way.<\/p>\n<p>So, what am I doing? I&#8217;ve had several folks ask that question. I&#8217;m managing a project to transform their current email system into something that is close to a collaboration suite. What that is hasn&#8217;t been determined, yet. The whole project will take at least a year, but I&#8217;ll also have periods where other people are working and I can take some time off. I&#8217;m having a LOT of fun. It&#8217;s delightful being back in a familiar environment working with smart people who value my experience and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Life is very good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an interesting time getting re-acclimated to the daily working grind. For the past three years I&#8217;ve been pretty much in charge of my own very flexible schedule. Today, however, my schedule is now quite rigid! For the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;m up at 5:15 a.m. and out the door by 6:30 a.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Work to Work!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-wd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}