Perhaps this old song, made so popular by Snow White's seven dwarfs, is not so appropriate any more. Going to work used to mean commuting to the office, or factory, or other such formal place of employment, but now it can just as easily signify staying at home and telecommuting, or perhaps even connecting to a virtual office somewhere in another country or another world.
If you're one of these new era individuals, do you miss the face to face contact, the water-cooler tittle tattle, the happy smiling faces of your co-workers, that horrible bullying boss, the prolonged coffee breaks or smoke breaks? Perhaps you just hop onto facebook, twitter, or one of the other new generation of proliferating social networking sites, to compensate for the more tactile real office experiences that you are missing? I wonder if you are still constantly bothered by business related phone calls interrupting your thought process, or is your mind constantly in neutral because your work is so boring?
I seem to blog quite frequently about that intangible thing known as 'progress'. Sometimes my comments are made with tongue firmly planted in cheek, others in a quite derogatory vein, occasionally reflecting substantial pleasure about the improvements that have resulted. I really don't know about telecommuting. I have never had to experience it, and it would almost certainly have been impossible to implement in my industry, home building, at least with respect to the construction itself.
On the other hand, if blogging can be considered as an example of the new way, I may unconsciously have been involved in this form of progress by working from home. After all, blogging is a form of publishing which employs the internet for distribution of the written word, instead of the old fashioned, hard copy, ink and paper system.
Is blogging work, I wonder? I enjoy writing, and used to get paid for it, but you are allowed to enjoy work, aren't you?
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