I have done bookkeeping and accounting for a certain company for the last five years, both at the office and from home. For the last few years, I've worked primarily from home for a few reasons, (1) it's more convenient with school and (now) a baby, and (2) they ran out of desks at the office.
Well today I was told that they want to bring me back in. I need to do my work at the office from now on. No more going days without wearing pants. No more showering once a week. It will be quite a change to return to society.
This will dramatically change things in our life from now on so we're deciding how to proceed. There are a few options:
- Find someone to watch the baby during the day and go work at the office. That would be the end of "Stay at Home Sven."
- Quit my job of 5+ years and stay at home with the kid. Find odds and ends ways of earning money from home (random legal research projects, ratemysinglesward.com, etc.).
- Wife quits her job and stays home with the kid, and I go to work. This is probably the worst options since our current (awesome) health insurance comes from her work.
- Or we could do a mixture of the first two and I could go into the office part-time.
Of course if more people read my stupid blog, I could sell advertising and never have to work again. Wouldn't that be nice?
Dang, this is bummer news. Just tell them that you will stay working at home, that you demand all of them to work from home, too, and that you deserve a doubling of your salary. That'll teach em never to demand anything from you ever again.
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