The awkwardness of part-time work

If you work part-time, and it's the type where you show up, do your thing, and leave: fine. Like working as a movie theatre, or a sales clerk.

And if you work full-time, at some sort of ''professional-class'' job -- some sort of business person or computer programmer or such -- and a project is running behind: o.k., you catch up on it for a few weekends. Part of the gig, I suppose.

The awkward -- o.k., let's call it ''sucky'' -- bit is when you work part-time on an ongoing project. We have the next draft of this government report due to our boss by the end of the business day tomorrow (Friday). I need to get my share of my chapter into the other guy's e-mail inbox such that he can work on his part first thing Friday.

Which means -- since I was watching the kids all day today -- that I have to work on it at night. General kid-wrangling lasted until about 9:30pm tonight. So, I have to work on it until -- what? Midnight? 2am? We'll see.

Yesterday (slash ''this morning'') I was up 'til 2am, working on it. This is getting a little old.


Bright side: At least I **am** getting paid by the hour. But at the moment, I'd rather just toss it in and go to bed.


Of course, I've spent the last 40 minutes checking e-mail. And I didn't **have** to write this blog entry... ;)


--GG