In the world of freelance, is it wrong?

#Is it wrong? Sam Howard shares her frelance ethical ponderings:

shh please don’t wake him…

1. Just in case he’s the only person you’re going to get to talk to all day, is it wrong to launch in with your most perplexing business issues, work fears, and brilliant new ideas while your 11 year munches on his morning porridge and does up his shoe laces?

2. To wear leg warmers and fingerless gloves indoors?

3. To pretend the web camera on your Skype call isn’t working when in truth it’s cos you look like shit and The Bloody Dog is jumping around in the background, trying to bury his Kong toy in the sofa?

4. To have full blown conversations with the rabbit, cat and dog in an effort to recreate those water cooler moments?

5. To have the fan heater and the central heating on at the same time?

6. To stuff dog treats in your brand new £40 sheepskin slippers, that were a Christmas present from your lovely mum, in an effort to keep The Bloody Dog amused for ten minutes, so you can reach your copy-writing deadline?

7. To eat your soup straight out of the pan and then give the carton and the pan to The Bloody Dog to keep him quiet for another five minutes?

8. To hang up on a conference call because you’ve just spotted The Bloody Dog has got the rabbit’s head in his mouth?

9. To top up your afternoon coffee with a large dose of Tia Maria? And then put its purchase against your tax expenses as ‘office beverages’?

10. To open the door to your child as he comes home from school, starving hungry, freezing cold and soaked through, with the greeting:
“Can you PLEASE take The Bloody Dog out! I have had him all day and he’s driving me frickin crazy. GO! NOW! GO!”