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Moving house, home…and work
10When you work from home a house move means uprooting your business as well as your home, with the potential for more upheaval and more stress, as we can testify, being on the point of moving for the third time in less than two years.
The part we have come to dread most is not the sorting through of ‘stuff‘ or even the packing, but the bureaucratic process you have to go through to change your address. And worst of all, the attempts to organise anything to do with phones and broadband. (In fact as we speak A is ranting in the next room about BT unilaterally putting a stop on our broadband rather than transferring it, thus triggering a substantial charge because our contract has time to run). So much time and energy taken up on something that should be simple.
Much more satisfying is getting rid of things. You’d think we’d have nothing left to dispose of, but a second bag is on its way to the charity shop and the recycling bin is bulging. We shall be lean and mean when we get to the new place!
A pain in the ear
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I rarely use my mobile. Like a pensioner, I keep it switched off most of the time, for use only when I need to check in at home or for emergencies. That’s why I don’t publish the number on my website or business card.
The reason is a pretty compelling one – if I make a call with the phone to my ear, shortly afterwards my ear hurts inside. It started when long phone calls using a cordless phone would make my ear hot, and then when I was a writing student at UCF and using the mobile more often, I noticed the pain. Now I only ever use it with the loudspeaker on so it’s away from my ear, which as you can imagine is not always very convenient.
I did get the doctor to check me out. He peered inside and pronounced everything perfectly healthy, which was a relief, but he didn’t seem very surprised by my problem and said that call centre staff can suffer badly in this way, wearing headsets all the time.
I do feel slightly freakish when I have to tell people and I’ve only ever heard of one other person who has the same experience. Do let me know if you know of others.
