{"id":10075,"date":"2011-11-01T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:33:31","slug":"now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I lay me down to sleep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWhen I tell people I work from home, they tend to think that I sleep late, walk around in my PJs and lay on the couch with my notebook, taking frequent naps. Well. Maybe that&#8217;s what other freelancers do. I don&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nI get up early (usually between 6 am and 6:30 am) and get dressed (who knows when potential customers may find their way to my door?), and I have an actual desk with a real PC, where I spent most of my working hours when I am not interpreting. I do have a notebook, but I only use it when I&#8217;m on the road. And there also is a couch in the living room, but I have never worked on it, other than maybe reading some professional magazines or other business-related books etc.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSo, how about them naps, then? After all, being self-employed and working from home should have some advantages, shouldn&#8217;t it? Believe me, it does, and I would not trade it for an in-house position, regardless of how much you pay me! And, yes, one of these advantages is the fact that I can schedule my working hours fairly flexibly most of the time, including breaks and, well, naps.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nI don&#8217;t do this regularly at all (unless I don&#8217;t feel well, of course), but every now and then, maybe because I worked late the night before, or because I slept poorly because the one dog woke me up three times to be taken out and the other one joined in for company, or because it&#8217;s just one of those days where the sun doesn&#8217;t seem to want to break through the cloud cover, and work is slow anyway and a walk in the fresh air is not feasible for whatever reason &#8211; every now and then I actually do lay down on the couch in the middle of the day and take a nap. Not a long one, 45 minutes tops, and I do set an alarm. But that&#8217;s usually enough to get me through that low point, past that slump in productivity, and then I am ready to roll again with a clear(er) mind. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe funny thing is that I usually don&#8217;t even really sleep during that time. But something about just laying there, letting my thoughts drift (preferably not on anything work-related) and listening to my dogs snore gently on their pillow next to me is so relaxing that my batteries get recharged anyway.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHow about you? Do you take \u00abpower naps\u00bb during the day? If so, how long and how frequently? If not, why not?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I tell people I work from home, they tend to think that I sleep late, walk around in my PJs and lay on the couch with my notebook, taking frequent naps. Well. Maybe that&#8217;s what other freelancers do. 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