I'm So Lazy

The perils of working from home. Today I procrastinated on the only work-related task I had given myself until 2pm. The task? To make a phone call.

Sometimes my ability to do nothing is quite astonishing.

Comments

[Mindy]

Yay for procrastinating! If I worked from home I'd only ever get some work done if I was avoiding doing the housework.

[Kate]

Sometimes I do housework to advoid the work work. Then, sometimes, like today, I do nothing at all.

[Mark Bahnisch]

Speaking as a frequent work from homer - 3 cups of coffee often induces enough energy for me to make a phone call!

[Mark Bahnisch]

The most powerful argument for me at the moment for getting started is not working til 10pm at night - as I had to do last night and I'll have to do again tonight because I whiled away the morning!

[Amanda]

If I'd known postgrad study was going to be such a great motivator to do other things I woulda started years ago. I've cooked elaborate meals, cleaned the flat 15 times, made my bed (usually a biennial event), reordered the CDs, vacuumed again, rang everybody I've ever met and been for long walks.

[Mark Bahnisch]

That's so true, Amanda. Deadlines are very variable when doing postgrad study. Now I'm back doing the paid work thing, I hardly have time to reorder my cds!

[Kate]

When I was at uni I became a very accomplished baker. Why study when you can make cakes?
I have to admit I'm usually fairly disciplined. The fact that I'm a contractor means I don't get paid until the work is done, which is a big incentive.

[Irant]

Am I the only one who procrastinates when blogging? I tend to have about 3 ideas going most days. I think about them, get my ideas in order, do research and then will blog on an entirely different subject. Mainly becuase by the time I put fingers to keyboard someone else has already blogged on it and what is the point.

[Bathsheba]

When I began my PhD I decided to form Procrastinator's Anonymous, but I couldn't get around to calling the first meeting and I knew nobody would manage to get there.

Now of course, I blog. But I'm trying to give that up.

[Guy]

To procrastinate is human. To blog is probably to procrastinate to some extent...

[Ampersandduck]

The only way to work from home is to resolutely turn your back on the housework. I refuse to spend my working day cleaning in any way just because I'm not in an office! And my working day has very amorphous hours... :)

[Kate]

Irant, I procrastinate about everything. Why do it today when you can leave it 'til it's so late that you wake up in a cold sweat at 3am with horror at the lateness of it all.

[Vasilije]

I work from home. Record guitar lessons for foreign company. I need to work 2 hours daily(saturdays and sundays are off) to earn 3xtimes average monthly salary in Serbia, and still I am procrastinating for days, sometimes weeks. Even the work is creative, not hard at all.
Who's bigger procrastinator than me?
Let me see you!