So you’ve gone to call us here at plusminus and it’s a friday, you swoosh on over to the contact us page, you read the number, then directly underneath there’s a weird thing
Office hours: 9am-5pm Monday to Thursday
So what’s up with the no working on Fridays? Is it because I’m slack, is it because I’m are only doing this this part time, why why why? Well, to tell you the truth, it’s to balance out my life. Work has a habit of taking over more of lives than it should, and a large part of the work I do is outside of plusminus for the Uniting Church. The problem, of course, in starting my own business is that free work which used to be relegated to the out-of-hours and snuck in the actual-hours at work, can now stop me getting actual work done. So the cunning plan is this: Monday through Thursday I work work work and ignore everyone who’s not paying me money with the useful answer of “let’s talk on Friday”. Outside of work hours I live my life with my family – good idea. Fridays, I ignore everyone who pays me money, and do everything I wish to volunteer my time for.
So far, so good, I’ve only had to work one Friday and it was mainly due to some Friday work seeping into a Tuesday. Let’s hope it works out – I can say I’m probably getting just as much work done Monday – Thursday than I would Monday – Friday, and my after-work time is far less stressed.