I don’t want much but I know I want it

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I am writing this post from the perspective of the job seeker/holder/employee; from the perspective of a mom, a wife, a professional. As I write this, I am sitting by a fire, deep conditioning my hair and watching my two year old double fist cheerios and raisins into his mouth. I LOVE it.

Could I make more pulling a 9-5 (they tell me it’s more like 8-6 now, forget THAT)? Maybe. But I really don’t care. Like many people, those hours don’t always jibe with when I’m my most creative, when I get my best ideas. I love being able to pull off a gorgeous site plan, strategy doc or amazing brochure in the middle of the night and surprise my colleagues with it in the morning.

I work in financial services so it gets to be hard to ALWAYS work from home, markets are open when they are open and they won’t change that for my “work-life balance” (much to my chagrin), and there are often calls to be made, meetings to attend and clients to impress. But the world being what it is and the technology available to many professionals, giving your workers the option to work from home is like a salve.

In my line of work, I am connected to a lot of people across a lot of industries who work in a variety of professions, the ones who get to work from home are consistently excited about it, tend to brag about their bosses, talk up their company, and have tons of “team love” for their departments. All these “good vibrations” are being sent out over the internet to people far and near.

I don’t want much but I know I want it. I want:

-to see my kids grow up
-to earn a reasonable living
-to spend a large portion of my week in jeans or sweats (which I SWEAR makes me more productive)
-to work from my couch
-to be inspired when and where I daggum well feel like being inspired
-to use the tools I spend good money on to connect with people professionally in new and innovative ways

Are those such lofty goals? Not really, no. And so I do the best work I can, as quickly as I can, so that I can have those benefits. I think there are a lot of job seekers out there who feel the same way. To be honest, I am slightly tired of the idea that my generation is completely spoiled just because we figured out a way to do it a litle better, a little different. I think it’s less about the actual demands and more about the fact that we even think we have the right make demands. Well I do and I AM.