Workin'

Since moving I haven’t posted much, or at all really, about my job. Which is probably for the best really as it is not at all the most interesting part of us being here. That said, it did get us over to London in the first place, and it’s paying for us to live this life of luxury over here (see all the posts below, we don’t do anything except for explore and have fun ;-)
So I thought I would give just a quick note on my job. First off, I work for an Internet Retailer, which in the states meant that at any day and time I could where flip-flops and a t shirt to work, and probably be one of the better dressed people around (at least they’d be coordinated and I wouldn’t be wearing socks with the flip flops!). I loved that. Could dress up a bit when I felt like it but no pressure. I also tended to work a pretty consistent schedule. Into the office after carpooling in with Katherine by 830 pretty much every day.
Being here things are a little different. First off, here’s what I wore to work yesterday:

A slight change from the usual. First, although I feel like I look pretty sharp in a suit, I don’t wear one really outside of events like weddings. And second, I’m wearing a backpack with a suit, which seems a little off, certainly not the latest accessory. Which makes sense if you think about about my current situation. In order to get where I needed to be, I had a 15 minute walk, a 40 minute tube ride, and a 10 minute cab ride. Carrying a sweet bag, that goes over one shoulder? Not really an option. So there you have it.

And then there's the other extreme:

The other change in my working life is that on those days that I am not working with a client onsite, I actually work from home. The Internet Retailer's offices are in Slough, which, if you have ever seen the original The Office, is where that show is based. So that should tell you something. I've been to Slough 4 times I think since moving to London. On the other days, I wake up, make a point to shower and shave, to feel kind of official and work-ish, and then stumble all the way into our "reception room" which is almost the same as a living room, except English. So when that is my office, it's a little bit more casual. It's a very strange thing, this work from home. It takes away from routine certainly, no going to the office. Here, we don't have an office set up yet, so I'm just hanging out in the living space. And, it being 8 hours off from the home base where all the people are that actually DO stuff (the coders, etc), makes it very easy for work to bleed into life, and the back into work. And if that's going to happen, you should at least be comfy, and stylish.