I decided to take a sick day today. I slept in, took some DayQuil- and find myself working (Sort of. No client work, but writing this post, for example, counts as “work.”)
If I worked out of the house, I’d call in sick and probably spend the day in front of the tv. But since I work from my bedroom, I can’t resist the pull of the MacBook.
It was the same when my kids were little, I rarely got a true sick day because there was always a child or three depending on me. Occasionally Pat would take the day off so I could really rest, but I didn’t take advantage of that option unless I was really, really sick.
Do you take sick days?When you work from home it’s not easy to really take a sick day.
If you work for yourself, or have a work from home arrangement, do you really take sick days?
Years ago, before remote access into the office, I would take a sick day if I felt too much like crap. You really cannot tolerate the long hours of a 4 hour round trip commute day when you are feverish. It takes too much out of you, and you end up even sicker. Plus, the firm went through this phase of “sick building” a couple of years, where you’d get better, and then the building would make you sick again, so they started encouraging people to keep their germs at home.
When remote access became common, “taking a sick day” translated to “well, I’ll just telecommute today”. Now that I am a full time telecommuter, I pretty much have to be 3/4 dead to take a full sick day. I mean, look what happened yesterday. Dentist appt that did not go well, unexpected pain and suffering, and what did I do when I got back? I remoted in, cleaned out my email, returned some phone calls, took a coupla meetings, and didn’t really give up the ghost until late in the afternoon.
Might be I’m a martyr. Might be we don’t get as many paid days off as we used to. Might be there’s been a cultural shift in corporate America. Might be I just get bored in the absence of intellectual stimulation, even if I’m 3/4 dead. Might be all of the above!
Tink *~*~*
http://www.stevelawson.net Steve Lawson
if I’m ill, I have ‘horizontal days’ – that is, I stay in bed, but still do computer-y things I’d have to be nearly dead to actually spend a day off-line like that
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Sick day
I decided to take a sick day today. I slept in, took some DayQuil- and find myself working (Sort of. No client work, but writing this post, for example, counts as “work.”)
If I worked out of the house, I’d call in sick and probably spend the day in front of the tv. But since I work from my bedroom, I can’t resist the pull of the MacBook.
It was the same when my kids were little, I rarely got a true sick day because there was always a child or three depending on me. Occasionally Pat would take the day off so I could really rest, but I didn’t take advantage of that option unless I was really, really sick.
If you work for yourself, or have a work from home arrangement, do you really take sick days?