I’m kind of curious about what other people—by which I mean normal people—do when they’re stuck at home waiting for tradies.
I’ve just chewed through the better part of four workdays doing exactly that. And while I do work from home, which should mean I can just get on with things while I wait, I find it almost impossible.
Part of the problem is that my office is down the back of the house, and of course, the tradies always need to come to the front. So I end up constantly listening out for them because I’ve had more than one occasion where they turned up, waited maybe a minute, then disappeared to the next job because I didn’t hear them arrive.
It’s that split focus that kills me. I can sit down in my office, fire up the ol’ word machine, fully intending to write—but as long as I’ve got one ear cocked for the sound of the gate or the dogs barking, nothing really gets done. My brain just doesn’t settle. In fact, by the end of the day it’s usually throbbing with a headache.
I know most people aren’t like me. Or at least, they weren’t—not until recently, when a lot more people started working from home. Maybe now it’s an issue for them too?
So I circle back to my original question: What do people do when they’re stuck at home waiting for a tradie or a delivery or whatever and they can’t seem to focus on what they’re meant to be doing?
I genuinely don’t know.