I was feeling a bit green yesterday. Not quite the complete ticket, a little wobbly in the person as it were. So in the afternoon I repaired to my bed and grabbed some sleep for a couple of hours. When I woke up I was lots better, fresh and revived and got back to work. Which was all simple to do as I work at home and for myself so I gave myself permission, resumed work providing superior SEO and IT support services to companies in and around the Black Country.
It’s a definite advantage that the home-worker has. If I was located in an office somewhere I would have either had to attempt to battle my way through the day feeling lousy and very probably gradually getting worse, or make up my mind to jack in the day, make my apologies and go home without the prospect of coming back and carrying on where I left it. Plus I’d have the annoyance of having to submit forms, maybe have to endure a ‘back to work talk’ as I really need my intelligence insulted as a penance for feeling unwell. But, in doing SEO work I can just save my work, take refuge under the covers, grab a quality snooze and when I woke up again, cross the landing to the study and continue.
It would have been different if I had been on an IT support call of course, although the choice would have been to complete the call I was on and then either opt to put off any further appointments or break for a breath of air or a nap in the car and then carrying on. It would also depend on the location in the Black Country I was of course, if I was near to home I could always scurry back for my nap and let outstanding appointments know that I was going to be held up, though of course if there was a drastic emergency situation somewhere then naturally I would have to be really unwell to let them down.
It is of course the eternal quandary of the contractor. No work, no pay and if you let clients down then they will always have the chance to find someone else that they may consider to be more reliable, that’s everyday business sense.
So, whether working to enhance someone’s website with SEO, or keeping their systems and machinery running by giving IT support, feeling queasy doesn’t need to stop me supporting my customers’ business, which being office bound probably would, which is for the best.
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