working from home

[Ferryman_1957]

I'm an IT project manager, so I'm allowed to waste time at the PC ... LoL Ferryman you discovered it ...

I was a Gartner analyst for many years before I retired, if you're in IT you may know what that is. I worked from home when I wasn't on the road, so I am very familiar with the "diversions" that challenge all home workers.....

[Flash Harry]

I was a Gartner analyst for many years before I retired, if you're in IT you may know what that is. I worked from home when I wasn't on the road, so I am very familiar with the "diversions" that challenge all home workers.....

Bloody hell Nigel - I use Gartner all the time, magic quadrants rule my life!

[Ferryman_1957]

Bloody hell Nigel - I use Gartner all the time, magic quadrants rule my life!

Magic Quadrants used to rule mine as well! Absolute bloomin' nightmare they were. Very glad I don't have to do them anymore. Very glad I don't have to do any work any more, instead I'm planning how to put the new pedalboard together when the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle arrives tomorrow!

[Kenneth]

I was going to post a pic here, but even though the jpeg is within the limits it won't take. Photobucket charges now and dropbox didn't work either.

[chapperz66]

I am now happily retired - well, as happily as possible under current circumstances. I spent my working life in logistics management, starting off as the boy in the transport office and ending up as logistics director of a number of different companies.  Just about every glass you have drunk beer out of and cutlery you ate with in a pub or restaurant will have come through one of my warehouses and survived one of my trucks.  I fed you with Mr Kipling cakes, and entertained you with Ferguson, Sanyo and Grundig TVs and audio products.  I promoted world peace and happiness by supplying you with the latest mobile phones that you didn't know you wanted. No - no - please don't thank me!  It was nothing   

Later in life I did a bit of logistics consultancy work for a few companies on a self employed basis but now I am pleased to say I have done my bit. Somebody else can carry the load.  (did you spot the distribution pun there? Oh, how we laughed!!)

This is an interesting thread.

Stay well chaps!

Paul

[chapperz66]

BTW - I have no idea what a magic quadrant is but it is a great title for a piece of music.  I will write it down in my little book of future song titles.

[maxit]

I think the last reply by chapperz puts us all, if not in the 'leader', at least at the top of the visionaries quadrant ;-)

[Ferryman_1957]

I think the last reply by chapperz puts us all, if not in the 'leader', at least at the top of the visionaries quadrant ;-)

A Magic Quadrant joke! I am well impressed. You definitely move top right.........

[hooper]

Interesting to see so many really smart people here, but of course I already knew that! 
I am semi-retired and I draw houseplans, self-employed now after doing it full-time for about 30 years.  The loft above our garage contains my workspace with a CAD workstation (about 20% of the room) and my home recording studio built around a DAW workstation.  So, being distracted at work and tempted to play is something I have happily lived with for decades... 

[Greeny]

I like this thread.