Separating the Hours
Today was one of those days where nothing appeared to get done, even if things were completed. Three hours of coding and troubleshooting upgraded some of the tags enough that Howling Point does what I want it to under the new version of WordPress. Documents were sent out for review and comments and signatures and the like. A reasonable start was made on a backlog of filing that may have built up. But on one of those days when the personalities can be as bad as any grouping of ancient, senior and senile partners, not much billing. Work, but not the paid kind. Unbillable Hours, not just a great blog that went missing a few years back, but a daily reality of independent contracting, also known as being a solo practitioner.
Unbillable hours was also one of the (many) reasons I left the Cubedwellers a few years ago. Rather than being salaried I was paid commission based on billable hours, but a management change made the arrangement completely unprofitable and I left. Two years later I’m getting calls from an attorney who seems to think I’d love to help (as a witness) expand on an investigation I did. Don’t I want to sit and talk for hours about a file I worked almost three years ago? Do I really want to testify about how my former employer handled evidence and documents and correspondence? Uh, no.
Tomorrow might be just as unbillable if some people don’t get back to me, but a sanity swim will be be taken. Probably should have worked one in today. Need to let the black line and chlorine work their magic, no matter how many Advils it takes.
Obviously the upgrade wasn’t as smooth as I thought. Nala just pointed out that comments have been blocked for several days. That appears to be fixed now.