A little whimsy from the inimitable Dominique Antarakis…
- It’s not unusual for you to be working at 4am, midnight, and all hours in between – but you reserve the right to take most of Tuesday off to catch a movie or go to the beach.
- You love going to industry conferences to network but spend half the time in your hotel room ‘catching up on work’.
- It’s not ‘work’ if it’s checking email.
- You love the idea of ‘productivity hacks’ but with 2 FTE employees and 6 interns to supervise, you don’t have time to try out every app on the market.
- You have every app on the market. You’ve logged in to them all but only use 3 consistently.
- You’re really into personal branding, but don’t have time to actually produce any content.
- You’ve looked into outsourcing your content, but can’t believe how much writers expect to be paid – it can’t be that hard, surely?
- You’re keen to be a ‘thought leader’, but don’t have time to walk the dog, let alone think about anything other than the task in front of you.
- Clients are just distractions from the really fun bit – trying out new apps and attending Marketo webinars.
- Leftover birthday cake and a glass of wine is an entirely acceptable dinner substitute. In fact, sometimes it’s highly preferable to the alternative – going home and cooking dinner.
- You’re addicted to online shopping – it saves you so much time! It also takes up a whole lot of time when you probably should be working.
- You love the idea of a co-working space but frankly, if you wanted to hang out with 14-year-olds in start-up mode you’d work from home.
- You like being at the office after hours because you can finally get some work done.