So many things have changed since we've been working from home, and let me tell you—I love it. I worked from home for years before the world was forced to work from home, but because we could be called on to show up to Zoom or Skype meetings (yes, Skype...remember?), we had to wear collared shirts or dresses. You can't see me laughing, but I am laughing.
When I worked from home and never joined in on meetings, it was not beyond me to wear my fuzzy-wuzzy onesie pajamas if I didn't think anyone would catch me. It's just the way it was. This was before I was forced by the big bad economy to go into the office and work. The entire three months I was forced to do that, I wondered if I would be ridiculed for wearing the same things because I didn't want to put too much money into my wardrobe. At the finance place I worked, I was probably the ONLY one not spending half my paycheck on clothes and shoes to impress the others. Nope, not me.
So, now that I'm at home 100% of the time for work and about 60% of my personal time -- maybe longer, I wear a lot of T-shirts and joggers in the warmer weather, and all of my big, baggy, beautiful onesies come out the second the weather turns cool enough to zip those puppies up! Today, the weather hit the magic number of 64 degrees (F) outside, and yes, I am wearing the latest - I tend to buy a couple each year and donate a couple each year; that way, they stay really nice, and I don't worry about my dogs ridiculing me for wearing the same ones!
Today, and for no other reason than because I can, I bought a new tie-dye onesie with pockets, and every minute that goes by gets me closer to wearing it -- I'm counting down! It's amazingly pretty, and yes, I will post it. I buy most of my things (now) on Amazon, and tomorrow is a great day! Tomorrow, it arrives, and I will be testing it out to be sure that it fits and that I can move around without feeling tightly bound within it -- loose as a goose -- that's how I like them to fit. I work out almost every day and want to be free to move about when I do. (I also want to hide anything that has yet to succumb to my workout routine!)
I got an email today asking me if I would be interested in working for XYZ insurance company as a fraud investigator, but they wanted me to drive about, knock on people's doors, interview them, and do a great deal of in-person work -- can you imagine? Who does that? We Zoom! I don't even want to put on "appropriate" clothes to do that; why would I want to get up, get dressed, drive somewhere, and then ...knock on doors...and talk to people? What? What are they thinking? Who talks to people these days...in person? No...no, thank you. I have a monitor and a camera, and we can Zoom -- besides, I may be forced to wear a collared shirt for a meeting (not at my current position, which I will likely never leave), but I don't wear shoes...just socks.
I counted my onesies. I have 7 now. That means I really can wear one each day and be OK...if I want to, and you know I will likely probably want to. I do have "costume" onesies as well, but I didn't count them if they had a "head" that covers my face. I have 4 of those...one is Eyore; it's too cute. My daughters also work from their respective homes - I know what to buy them for Christmas, that's a gimme. They know what to buy me too. We can exchange gifts and maybe matching work clothes - wouldn't that be fun? I'm thinking GRINCH onesies!!
My good friend, who is a nurse, just wrote to me that I was lucky to be able to work from home. I wonder how patients would react if she showed up to work in a onesie. I mean, it doesn't change how she works or what she could do professionally -- my lawyer friend told me she wants to give it a try but will wait until one or two days before she is set to retire. I had to laugh -- again. I laugh a lot these days. I'm pretty happy.
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