So, I planned a walk from my office in Islington to my home in Ely.
I had planned to go into my office in our New York headquarters before taking a midmorning shuttle to Boston for a meeting.
I love seeing what I allocated for each section of my plan (home office design, equipment, marketing, start-up costs, salaries, web design etc) and seeing how I can execute under budget.
This morning, like so many, I began my work day by leaving the house, opening Waze, a real-traffic app, planning my commute to the office.
I will be here, in my (open plan) office, with a few others putting together Tuesday's paper – a lot of work for 20p!
The problem is that in my open-plan office, where there are three professional writers to about 15 other editorial staff and maybe 20 account management execs and managers, nobody else really understands that what a writer really, really needs, apart from a regular supply of tea, coffee and gin, is reasonably extended periods of uninterrupted tappity-tap time in which to craft the Words.
Where I once worked in my financial planning office on most days, I started by testing things out with a few days per month away from the office at first.
They were the two most blissful hours of my open-plan office life.
I love teaching, but I would like to broaden my scope by marrying my previous career experience in trade show coordination, meeting and event planning, and office management with my education in TESOL.
warwick1 I work in an open-plan office and my desk is beside my project manager's; he is also my line manager.
