Singing from the roof tops! After all, isn’t this what we all wanted when we chose the freedom of working for ourselves in the first place? Then we chain ourselves to an electronic monitor. How silly. Time to break free!

You know that love is very mutual. And I think that you are very wise to try to step back as much as you do and keep the balance. But yes, setting the boundaries up front will make it a lot easier.

Hugs!

Maybe it is something in the air. Like I said, I have been gritting my teeth in this for a long time, so when Chris wrote his post it sparked a flame. And from the amount of comments, it looks as if I’m not alone. Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

Welcome to SG!

I hope you were able to enjoy your half day off. Good for your Boss. it sounds like she is trying to protect a valuable employee.

Unless that contract was for flying a heart replacement across the country…I can’t think of a single reason to work with a client who had that self inflicted sense of urgency. You’d have to charge a serious PIA fee to make that worth it. And there isn’t enough money in the world to get hijacked by that kind of attitude. If you ask me that person dodged a bullet.

Yes, I agree, Texting while driving is a part of our Collective Social Disease. A very dangerous part at that. I will add in not being able to get through dinner at a nice restaurant with a loved one without checking facebook, twitter and e-mail too. We need a 12 step program!

SIMS!! My daughter still occasionally plays that. And it’s so true. We all have to have time to nurture ourselves and each other. We may be ABLE to work Anywhen, that doesn’t mean we should feel compelled to have to. Boundaries are not just a good thing, they are a mandatory thing.

Welcome, and thank you for adding to the international time zone point. I think it is something we all need to have a little more consideration for. We need to stop and realize that now that we are working on a world wide time zone , we have to take in to consideration that not everyone is on our work day. Some people need to sleep while we work and we need to slow down and be patient. Or, conversely, realize they have already been working all day and might not want to stay and work an extra few hours to answer your question because you just got in.

Welcome, and…you are welcome. I think as long as we are friendly, polite, and let people know how much we value them and that we are not ignoring them, they will likely be happy to wait a little longer. the other side of the coin is not every single message needs an instant reply or even any reply. I think we all think we have to have the last word. So e-mail chans keep going on forever. That isn’t very efficient. If we all thought twice before sending e-mails out, we wouldn’t all have 400 to begin with.