Do you bring work home with you?

[coriolis]

I did two nights this week. Had to finish a report tuesday night and a proposal thursday night. Gotta love email attachments. One angle though, I waited until really late before I emailed it to my boss. Made him think that I was really burning the midnight oil.

[GalvestonDuck]

I don't really have to, since I live just a couple of blocks from the hospital. And I can't since it deal with confidential patient information.

So if I need to work late or on weekends, I take a quick stroll back to my office.

[azskyman]

Everyone who envies the boss ought to live in our household.

Over the years I worked my way up through the ranks...came to Phoenix without a job, but now find myself managing a very busy printing plant here. The place operates 7 days a week, 20 hour days except for an abbreviated schedule on Saturday. As such, I am always on call...even when in San Diego. The rare occasion is when I don't have any emails to respond to or reports to complete when I am home.

Wife Kathy manages the front office for three doctors. She's been working about 60 hrs a week since January. While watching TV last night, she was verifying time cards.

So yup, Ed, we bring work home...or it follows US home, all seven days.

I've got my eyes on a crossing guard job right on my own corner when I'm ready to retire!

[Stephanie]

I used to when I was in my managerial positions. I will e-mail work home during the busier budget season just to get caught up.

[sunnyday]

As a teacher, I do, of course, but I also bring home my worries and concerns about the students. Last semester, I worried so over one class that I didn't sleep well all during the term! I care more about them than they do about themselves, I think.

[breeze]

Occasionally, yes. We've been doing a
Parkinson's disease survey with a
pharmaceutical company for several months,
now, and, after the doc interveiws the patient,
I bring the info home and log it onto the
survey website. There's one study lying on
the kitchen table to be logged, right now!

[weatherwunder]

I bring work home nearly every night. I am a manager in the department that I work in, my title is Blended Learning Specialist, so in order to keep up with the work load, I must bring it home.

[timNms]

As a teacher, I do, of course, but I also bring home my worries and concerns about the students. Last semester, I worried so over one class that I didn't sleep well all during the term! I care more about them than they do about themselves, I think.

Sunny, I know how you feel! I used to lose lots of sleep worrying about my "kids". And that worry wasn't always about their academic abilities. Most of the worry had to do with the situation they lived in.

As far as bringing work home with me, I did for the first few years I taught, but quickly learned that most often it sat undone because I had other things that needed to be done...helping my own kids with their homework, doing things around the house. So I decided that I'd leave the work at school. There were times when I would bring things home that need done immediatly and I had not had time to finish at school, such as lesson plans, or something that needed to be made for a lesson. But as far as paperwork, if it didn't get done one day at school, I figured I'd get to it the next
Oh yeah...at the end of the year, I'd bring home my grade book and have grades averaged so that I could get report cards done in plenty of time LOL

[Lindaloo]

I used to bring it home with me when I worked for Allstate. But, not anymore.