On weekdays, 8am means work! Lunchboxes are loaded because we don't eat out much anymore. Laptops fire up when we work from home. Early morning conference calls are conducted on our mobile phones because no one goes to work that early just for a meeting. Cars are warmed up for the short trips to work. A typical American workday is in full swing.
I work only about 6 minutes drive from home. The short distance was one consideration for living in this part of town. At work, my responsibilities span anywhere from writing web services and scripts, to responding to support and admin tickets, to managing licensing and a hybrid environment of disparate services, to managing the technical aspects of projects and product releases, and facilitating the movement of business data/reporting. For the next 8-10 hours, I wear the geek hat.
She works 15 minutes drive up the interstate, supporting a team of web developers as an admin, updating websites and other resources for child sponsorship, processing contracts, and facilitating meetings or events. That both our jobs are flexible is one perk, but the benefits and stability are definitely welcome. We are aware of the difficulty finding work these days, so we don't take what we have for granted.
An hour before the workday starts, we have breakfast and devotionals as we have done since our wedding day. It's pretty common now that breakfast is the only meal we can count on eating together because of various other evening obligations. We tried doing lunch once a month together but it didn't quite work out. Six o'clock brings us back home for much needed unwinding. Ours is still a very simple life indeed.
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