I Require One Lazy Day Per Week.

The crux of most of my decisions over the past decade plus have centered around time as the currency.

My time, specifically.

Does whatever I have to decide on/engage with:

• Do I feel annoyed from it?
• Is it teaching me something I already know?
• Does it make me feel drained? And do I spend a lot of time inventing action plans for a worst-case-scenario situation in my head?
• Will it require me to spend money that goes beyond my preferred carrying-cost ratio for life?   
• Does it make me feel bad/negative about myself in any way?

If the answer is "yes' to any of the above, then I bolt. 

Or should. I will eventually, but occasionally it just takes me time.

Anyway... Earlier this week I had not one but three companies reach out to me - unsolicited - about opportunities. 

Two of them were not remote roles, so it was an obvious non-starter. 

But one was for a remote role. 

But it's a slightly intense environment. Long hours expected. Very good pay...  Which made me pause for consideration of it. 

I could have peonies delivered to the house every week for that, and not just rely on when they are in season at Trader Joe's...

This week's flowers. Peonies.

But chasing money is something I said "good-bye" to along with my marriage. 

I don't want the stress and the grind of not having mental space for me to process and think about things I find interesting.

I don't want to be working non-stop.

At the very least, for such an intense environment (work or marriage) I require one lazy day a week to decompress.

"But that's what the weekends are for, silly!" 

Hmm... No.

I would need a three day weekend in order to shift into the flow of what this other company required.

A day with no plans. No engagement required with other people. I can sleep in as long as my body allows me. I have nothing on the schedule.

So if this company had said, "We are remote, pay almost double what you make now, and we are on a four day work week," I would have been begging to know more.

I think it's just a matter of time till we get four day work weeks and remote working as the norm.