Talera vs Working out of town
Posted 24th November 2010 at 03:17 PM by Talera
You won’t hear me talk much about my employment on here. What I do say will be fairly limited.
For work lately I have been out of town a lot. Now I have a laptop for work, but can’t access most sites and also can’t check my home email. Surprisingly enough, this frustrates the hell out of me. It isn’t that I can’t play computer games or anything. No it’s that I perform most of my communications with others electronically now, via email or the dreaded FB.
So when I work out of town, I tend to feel cut off. I am away from home, alone in a hotel/motel and not really able to talk to anyone greatly. Then I feel crappy that most of my interpersonal communications with those who do not live close to me anymore is done online.
I find online easier. It’s quick, frequent and can reach more than one person at once when you have something big you need to tell everyone. But then you’re screwed if the computer breaks, power is out or (god forbid) you work out of town with the above restrictions. I know there are ways around it, like me taking my own laptop and have portable wireless, but given I don’t work out of town that often it isn’t really worth the expense to me.
So instead I have been spending many nights this month in a room away from home watching bits of movies on pay tv and seeming like I’m ignoring everyone.
My job has made me a snob.
