Those people being me, of course. Just two days ago, I felt overwhelmed with work, not sure how I'd fit everything I needed to do this week into this actual week. Just like that, though, some incoming work was delayed, and now I'm at a loss.
I learn something new every day, and one of the things that I'm just now learning about working from home as a contractor is to always have a back-up plan. Not necessarily a back-up plan for making more money (although that, possibly, would not be a bad idea) but a plan for how to spend time set aside for work when the work fails to materialize.
A long to-do list, no matter how overwhelming, is pretty easy for me to manage. Unscheduled blocks of time, however, are another matter altogether. In The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape explains to Wormwood that his job as a demon is to take a person's soul and to give as little as possible in return. The demon's goal is to make the victim realize, far too late, that he wasted his life doing neither what he should have been doing nor what he wanted to do. This is what I'm afraid of, every time I have unscheduled, un-spoken-for time.
This too shall pass, and probably much faster than I want it to. Meanwhile, I have more work coming in tomorrow, but I think that I need two lists: What to Do if the Work Comes in on Schedule and What to Do if it Doesn't. Foiled again,Wormwood. Foiled again.
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