Labor Day

I am going to try a more off-the-cuff form of blogging to see if that works for me and whether it results in more posts. Hopefully it won’t be a stream of consciousness ie a compilation of tweets. Note to self – check out whether I can incorporate tweets into this blog as posts. Seems obviously possible.

The tyranny of time sheets – as much as I have espoused in the past about alternative fee arrangements, time sheets aren’t going away any time soon. Even with fixed fee arrangements, time sheets are required to validate (either internally or externally) the time spent on the matter.

What’s more, there is this internal stress of having to at least do some billable work every day. And that competes with all the other stuff one has to do in a firm from marketing, research (not always billable), preparing ppts for talks, bouncing issues off colleagues, preparing bills (which take an inordinate amount of time) etc.

And so the weekend thankfully comes and it’s Labor Day which means, as a wit stated in a tweet “Labor Day …. a day to labour? :-p” @ongpeipei. The best witticisms have a painful grain of truth. That means I use weekends to catch up on my billable work. It’s not supposed to be this way!

But at least I get to listen to music when I work at home. Playing now.