Why I Will Soon Have To Get A New Job

I work every day with people all over the world. Consequently, it is often hard to set a meeting time that is useful to everyone who needs to be in a meeting.

I am quite prepared to work in the evenings, and often do, but I really, really, want to keep that narrow window of time between “Sarah gets home from day care” and “Sarah goes to bed” free of work. This is play with my kid, eat dinner with my family, read my kid a story and tuck her in time.

Since I can’t expect everyone to know that, I use our calendaring system at work to block off this time–creating a repeating appointment that shows me as busy every night from 5-8.

In theory this will tell everyone that I am not available for meetings in this time slot–a message I reinforce at every opportunity.

This is how my calendar looks tonight:

And that’s me, one notch closer to polishing up the old resume.