Absolutely never. I also do my very best to not even think about work unless I’m actually there.
I do some work at home, but it’s strictly voluntary.
I work at a museum, accessioning and cleaning artifacts. It’s sometimes difficult to determine a date when things were made, so I have a notebook full of manufacturer’s names, maker’s marks and things like that. When I have some downtime, I’ll search the internet to try to find out when the company/artisan was in business which helps us narrow down the time-frame.
Every now and then I’ll bring home some of my research and search the 'net to see if I can find any useful references. Sometimes, it can be a lot of fun, putting different “clues” together.
Never. But I sometimes dream of work, really vivid dreams. They can really cause anxiety when I wake up, if it’s going badly…I wish I could get paid for those wasted hours of tossing and turning.
Lissa, I’ve read many of your posts referring to your job, I’ve come to the conclusion that you have a neat hobby that you happen to get paid for. Hell, I’d bring work home too.
Depends on what’s going on at work. I frequently bring home stuff to read. Every Friday, I get a summary of all of the Georgia Appellate Court opinions that were released over the week, so I usually read those on the weekends. If I am in trial, I always bring work home. I have a drug case starting Monday, and even though I’m completely and totally ready to go on it, I brought the file home and I’ll be obsessively reading over it and making sure I didn’t miss anything.
If I'm working on womthing that requires a big block of uninterrupted time, like a brief, I'll bring it home and take a day at home instead of the office. Amazong how much I can get done when I don't have interruptions.Never ever ever ever ever. I don’t even think about work while I’m at home. Heck, by the time I’ve reached the parking lot, I’ve forgotten what I was doing.
(I’m in computer programming, and a lot of my ilk will ponder work problems while at home, if they’re not actually working from home. Some even have reported solving work problems in their sleep. Not me, no chance; my time off is sacrosanct.)
I’m one of 2 people supporting several 24x365 systems. So, yeah, on alternate weeks the laptop and blackberry stay with me and my work finds me when necessary.
Mostly it’s not that bad, and I do get paid overtime, but it still sucks harder than several octopuses to get woken up at 2:45am in the middle of the week…or any day.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. I’ve often joked that I’d actually pay to work there. I’m a lucky girl-- there aren’t very many people in this world who actually look forward to going to work in the morning.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I think your job is awesome, and you should have an “ask the” thread, if you don’t already. I have a friend who’s thinking of getting into that sort of career, and it would be great to hear about it right from the source.
As a teacher, I have papers to grade and lessons to prepare almost every night.
And to those that whine that teachers have a cushy job requiring little time working because we get summers off and only “have” to be at work from 8 am to 3 pm: bite me.
I did have one a couple of years ago. I don’t suppose the mods would appreciate a ressurection, so I’ll consider starting another one.
As a wage slave, I only take work home if I’m being paid for it. When I was working for myself, it was a different matter entirely.
Well, I almost never have to bring it home, since I can log in from home and read my mail and get access to everything I need. I almost always check mail over the weekend, so I’m free Monday morning. I also have lots of work related hobbies like columns and book reviews and conferences which I mostly do from home. I don’t know if that counts or not.
I get ready for work at home and do things in preparation for work, but no, I never actually bring work home.
Very hard to answer. I don’t actually do any work for compensation at home. But, I follow the markets every day. So, I spend time seeing what is happening in Asia when I get home and then I follow Europe when I wake up.
I try to give 12 hours per day, 5 days a week to the financial markets. I only get paid for 40 however.
Last year I was bringing work home every weekend. My bosses assigned me so many extra projects that I couldn’t finish my regular work during the week. It didn’t help that my coworkers were asking me to help them with every single problem they had, no matter how minor, without trying to solve it themselves. I had a long meeting with my bosses and they agreed to limit the extra projects.
This year is much, much better. My New Year’s Resolution was to leave my work at the office and use the weekends for myself. So far I’ve kept it up without a problem. The biggest challenge was learning to say “no” to my coworkers when they asked for help with easy problems (eg., things I’d already taught them six times that they hadn’t bothered to write down). One coworker has gotten extremely pissy about it, but everyone else has accepted that I can’t drop what I’m doing to help with their projects when I have my own deadlines to meet.
Being assertive feels good. 
Reading your responses has been very instructive. (And it’s Saturday night and I’ve not touched what I brought home, by the way! I’ve been working on my own art.)
I realize I have a need to be the heroine who makes it happen in spite of formidable odds. And I also realize that the only thing this behavior does is teach my colleagues that I can handle any last-minute request. :smack:
I need to tell the folks that dropped the job in my lap that they need to give me their mailing dates for the whole year, so I can tell them when I need the text files.
Rarely. When I was younger quite a bit, but now I figure they get my 40 and that is enough. Every project has crunch time so I will do some extra work then, but usually I leave work at work.
I work from home, so it is every day when I am not on the road. Then again, when I am on the road my home is a hotel room, and I have to respond to all the emails and voicemails I got during the day.
My computer is on from 6:30 AM until 10:00 PM.
I do take long breaks during the day, however. And I don’t feel a bit of guilt about that.
N e v e r ! 