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A Few Words About Working For Yourself

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Bossy has been a fulltime writer, more or less, for the past four years, which means Bossy is her own boss. This predicament has its advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages:

  1. Bossy’s boss has a lenient dress code. Meaning dress is optional. Although Bossy can’t write anything of worth unless she is wearing a bra. Call it structure.
  2. Bossy can bring her dog to the office. Because there is no office. But there is a dining room table. And a dog.
  3. Bossy can drink alcohol in front of her boss because her boss drinks too. Although the office parties are terribly small (see advantage two.)
  4. Bossy can write about whatever she wants because her boss is open-minded. Or maybe her boss is just hung-over.

Disadvantages:

  1. Bossy can’t hide behind the water cooler when she wants to avoid her boss. Because there is no water cooler. And there’s no avoiding the boss who plants herself between Bossy’s ears.
  2. Bossy’s boss has an issue with boundaries. Writing, photography, social networking, fine, Bossy will indulge in these practices for you. But cleaning your stove on Bossy’s lunch hour and picking up your dry cleaning because Bossy “happens to be in the neighborhood anyway” — no, that is not part of the job description. Also? Even Gah rests on Sundays.
  3. Bossy’s boss brings her dog to the office dining room table, too. And that dog needs its mouth wiped.
  4. Whenever Bossy calls in sick and thinks she got away with it, there’s Bossy’s boss in the dark nightclub tapping Bossy on the shoulder all, “I thought you said you were sick and here I find you wiggling your fanny with a vodka tonic in your hand,” which is to say Bossy’s boss is everywhere.
  5. When Bossy misses a work deadline, Bossy’s boss is crestfallen, which is a sight so pathetic it trumps any words of admonishment.

Case in point, Bossy had the task of completing a video project so she can announce something exciting, and the boss-imposed deadline for this video was today.

But instead Bossy went out last night and didn’t come home until very late, preventing Bossy from working on the video, and then Bossy slept through her morning alarm while her children tended to their own breakfast needs and about that? Nothing makes a person feel like Courtney Love more than practicing the repose of irresponsibility while listening to the Middle-Schooler, downstairs, rustling through the kitchen cabinets for something, anything, that can be dunked in the toaster.

All this to say, Bossy apologizes for missing her deadline today. She really is eager to share this video with her council since it involves all of you.

Can we agree to meet back here later this weekend instead? Promise?

Love, Courtney Bossy

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  2. Bossy, if I pulled that kind of s**t, I’d be FIRED! Get with it Bossy. Time ‘r Tough! TGIF!

    p.s. Your referred to children. Don’t you just have one kid at home? Or do you mean all the animals too?

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  8. Cleaning the stove on the lunch hour…oh I laughed hard. On a weird side note, I could swear I had a dream recently where I was ordering a vodka tonic with lime.

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  11. I know, why don’t you blog about your boss and see if she reads it and then you get fired and oh, wait, that’s been done, hasn’t it?

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  14. oh, no, Bossy, tell your boss it’s a HOLIDAY WEEKEND and slack off more til Tuesday. except for wiping the dog drool. that’s free time fun.

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  19. Every office needs a dog and that is just a plain fact. Which is why my office is in my home, too. Well, okay, it’s not an office because I don’t work. Well, I do, but not anything I get paid for. But I have dogs there. In my not really an office office.

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  20. I need that dress code. And the drinking part. I’ll meet later this weekend IF Stella is included. And only then!

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  21. Three things:
    1. Bossy’s office is much neater than mine.
    2. I was out late with MY boss last night too…so much for deadlines.
    3. I can’t seem to remember the third thing (see number 2)

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  28. I wish I had a boss like Bossy’s. My dream job involves wearing jeans to work, and taking my dog along. I must be careful, that could be all manner of jobs I don’t really want. Ahem. Anyway. Will be checking back this weekend to see if Bossy really puts in the overtime.

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  29. I adore your blog! thank you for stopping by and commenting on my blog or I would have never found yours!

    If we had the same boss, I would be sneaking out with you and dacing with a martini in my hand…we shouldn’t work together…. 😉

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  31. I’m with Cynthia. What is Bossy writing? Bossy, you’re living my dream. Parts of it, anyway. I want to work for myself, from home, with my dog, wearing whatever I feel like. What would my work entail? That’s the hard part. I don’t know.

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  36. Your boss has boundary issues. BTW, I just want to say you’re hilarious. Blogging (or staring at your belly button) without being self absorbed is HARD and you are one of the few who pull it off. I love it.

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  38. We had the exact same morning!!! Timothy had to wake ME up! Drove him to school in my flannel PJ’s w little lumberjacks & dogs pulling sleds and my hand-me-down slippers from one of the boys’ that are at least 7 years old ……praying I wouldn’t get stopped at a light and have to sit next to a car where they could see me, bed-head & all! Ha. They probably did and thought “Oh there’s that lady that drives around town in her PJ’s all the time.” Either that or “Gah! Courtney Love looks worse that usual!!!”

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  45. Totally understand the bra issue… used to work from home, and simply couldn’t put anything on paper, until I put shoes on! Love your site!

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  48. Oh, about working for yourself … I have a few words for you. Read this post. o_0 I am presently juggling a dozen projects and one borderlines on emailing Bossy a better photo. I could replace the word “writer” in your post with *jack of many creative endeavors but not master of a science forsaken one*.

    I forgot what I was going to say, but yeah … Hey, look. A vodka gimlet!

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  50. I work fom home also and can say that while it is incredibly freeing, it is also extremely difficult to keep the Procrastination disease at bay.
    case at hand – I’m running late on a 60-page translation due for this week, and what am I doing? Reading Bossy’s latest blog post. ahem.

    since I started working from home 4 years ago, I became strongly addicted to T-shirts, jeans and sneakers.
    high heels? why?!?

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  51. On the theory that wearing a bra makes me more productive, I have been tightening my bra every day for two weeks. I got so much done yesterday that I passed out. Thank you, BOSSY.

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