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The Friday Five: My Work Place
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spacefem:
1) Where do you go for work?
I live at my workplace – a guesthouse in the mountains of Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. It’s a small family-run guesthouse; my brother and I do all the work. It’s the shortest commute in my professional career’s history.
2) What is your office like?
Depends on the day. Sometimes it’s the guesthouse’s reception, with my laptop set up on one of the tables we use for serving breakfast. Other days it’s the sprawling garden that surrounds the guesthouse – where I spend many hours sweeping leaves and pruning plants.
3) Where do you go to take a break from work?
Usually my hammock after lunch, where I lie for an hour or two, napping and listening to podcasts.
4) What's your favorite thing about your job?
I’m my own boss. Sometimes I have to do stuff because I just have to (i.e. guests are about to arrive, I can’t just leave their rooms messy), but most times I set the agenda for what I should be doing during the day.
Years ago, I took a horticulture course in London because I dreamed of leaving my desk-based job for a job in one of London’s parks. I eventually quit the course because I found it very hard to memorise the names of 6 plants per week. But now, years later, it looks like my dream came true…
5) In what ways are you lucky this week?
I’ve chatted to an old friend via Zoom, had my weekly Portuguese chat session witholamina, kept up with my NaNoWriMo 2020, watched the Queen’s Gambit (which I’m thoroughly enjoying), had a few blissful rainy days, made friends with a new cat (Chocolate), and had a good amount of money come in via guests.
spacefem:1) Where do you go for work?
I live at my workplace – a guesthouse in the mountains of Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. It’s a small family-run guesthouse; my brother and I do all the work. It’s the shortest commute in my professional career’s history.
2) What is your office like?
Depends on the day. Sometimes it’s the guesthouse’s reception, with my laptop set up on one of the tables we use for serving breakfast. Other days it’s the sprawling garden that surrounds the guesthouse – where I spend many hours sweeping leaves and pruning plants.
3) Where do you go to take a break from work?
Usually my hammock after lunch, where I lie for an hour or two, napping and listening to podcasts.
4) What's your favorite thing about your job?
I’m my own boss. Sometimes I have to do stuff because I just have to (i.e. guests are about to arrive, I can’t just leave their rooms messy), but most times I set the agenda for what I should be doing during the day.
Years ago, I took a horticulture course in London because I dreamed of leaving my desk-based job for a job in one of London’s parks. I eventually quit the course because I found it very hard to memorise the names of 6 plants per week. But now, years later, it looks like my dream came true…
5) In what ways are you lucky this week?
I’ve chatted to an old friend via Zoom, had my weekly Portuguese chat session with
olamina, kept up with my NaNoWriMo 2020, watched the Queen’s Gambit (which I’m thoroughly enjoying), had a few blissful rainy days, made friends with a new cat (Chocolate), and had a good amount of money come in via guests.