My impression is that it's unusual. Most people seem to work in offices where Big Company, Inc. provides them a phone line. But that's just a guess. I could be way out of date.
He didn't seem to be at all bothered by getting a business call in the hospital. (Makes sense, if he's answering calls from phone numbers he doesn't recognize.) Me, I was a little surprised, but what the hey.
For me, I think having a business line separate from my cell phone is handy for times when I want to remain connected to my personal life but not to my business life -- say, recovering from surgery! But then I'm a wage slave. Sole proprietors, f'rex, might see things pretty differently.
I have another phone quirk that I know to be unusual. I believe that my phone is there for my convienance and not other that of other people. I find it very easy to leave a phone ring or to see who is calling and ignore it. Recovering from surgery, I'd have the phone on if I could get away with it, but I would probably only accept calls from a select few.
The answer to that business line distinction might be smarter phones. There isn't any reason our cells shouldn't have multiple numbers, and intelligence about grouping calls, etc. We're getting there, but I think we could go a lot further with little effort.
Ah. I like your phone quirk, and share it to some extent, but I find the noise of a ringing phone to be intensely irritating. I'm not above simply turning the ringer off, though. :-)
Mmmm, a phone with multiple numbers and some intelligence about them. That's excellent!
I should be able to have it ring differently at different times of day for different people. I should be able to create menus so that callers could elect to do things like go straight to voicemail. I should be able to send classes of callers there against their will. :-) I should be able to program the phone to do these things myself. grumble-grumble
How are things? I haven't been on LJ again for months on end and thus haven't been keeping up.
Things are pretty good overall. Feet still b0rked. Still have three wonderful cats and one wonderful husband. New job at tiny startup = exciting and all but overwhelming. One kitty has recently been diagnosed diabetic and is responding well to treatment.
How are things with you? How is your wife? How's the (MUST be here by now) BABY? Are you still playing poker?
:-) I hope you enjoy the startup experience. I've done that more often than not and find that I like that atmosphere more than larger companies. For the most part I've started with tiny startups and helped make them larger companies and then ended up leaving for one reason or another.
Speaking of that, I'm doing it again. :-) http://www.codefire.com/news_article.php?article=2 Poker was going well, but the opportunity to work with an online poker site was more than I could pass up. It combines a lot of things that I enjoy and is turning out to be a very interesting experience.
Alexander James is with us now! You can see him some here: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pandayoak/album?.dir=bd01scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pandayoak/my_photos http://pics.livejournal.com/pandashrugged/gallery/000024qs
We're having so much fun being parents. He's a joy most of the time and gets better all the time. About a week ago, he grew up all at once in one day. I think there was some marked improvement in his vision, but now his personality is much more positive, he likes to play some, he reaches for things, etc. It's fun watching him do all of these things for the first time.
Ooo, awesome! That seems like it truly is perfect for you. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love hearing about situations that turn out perfectly like that -- two seemingly disparate chunks of experience and interests meshing perfectly for the next thing you do.
We're having so much fun being parents.
That's wonderful. The pictures are great! Who's the other little one who keeps showing up in there -- a cousin? I bet this is one of the most amazing times for parents, as new babies learn so MUCH. Just operating a body is a lot of skills to learn.
I also share that phone quirk. But I live with someone who emphatically does *not*. It drives her *nuts* to ignore the phone on purpose, and it's even worse if the person doesn't leave a message.
But I don't like it when people have only cell phones, because they just don't have as good sound quality as land-line phones do. I've got a cell phone, but I'll call people back from a land-line if they reach me on it at home or work. (And yes, I did buy a decently expensive phone.)
I occasionally make such callbacks from desk or wall phones for the same reason. Sound quality is unfortunate. I don't have phones at the office and at home that I can use that way... I just never answer them or give the numbers out. Heck... I don't even know the number on either currently.
Have you ever worked somewhere that didn't give you a desk phone?
Um, only places that didn't give me a desk. Like the copyshop. -g-
I've never done the start-up thing. The closest is where I'm contracting now, which was a start-up a couple of years ago, and is now a few hundred people. I'm a techwriter working in the Unix sysadmin group, and I get to hear lots of comments about how it's not like the good ol' days...
(Otoh, I worked for Big-Ass Bank for 10 years, and this is nothing like!)
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He didn't seem to be at all bothered by getting a business call in the hospital. (Makes sense, if he's answering calls from phone numbers he doesn't recognize.) Me, I was a little surprised, but what the hey.
For me, I think having a business line separate from my cell phone is handy for times when I want to remain connected to my personal life but not to my business life -- say, recovering from surgery! But then I'm a wage slave. Sole proprietors, f'rex, might see things pretty differently.
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The answer to that business line distinction might be smarter phones. There isn't any reason our cells shouldn't have multiple numbers, and intelligence about grouping calls, etc. We're getting there, but I think we could go a lot further with little effort.
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Mmmm, a phone with multiple numbers and some intelligence about them. That's excellent!
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How are things? I haven't been on LJ again for months on end and thus haven't been keeping up.
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How are things with you? How is your wife? How's the (MUST be here by now) BABY? Are you still playing poker?
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Speaking of that, I'm doing it again. :-) http://www.codefire.com/news_article.php?article=2 Poker was going well, but the opportunity to work with an online poker site was more than I could pass up. It combines a lot of things that I enjoy and is turning out to be a very interesting experience.
Alexander James is with us now! You can see him some here:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pandayoak/album?.dir=bd01scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pandayoak/my_photos
http://pics.livejournal.com/pandashrugged/gallery/000024qs
We're having so much fun being parents. He's a joy most of the time and gets better all the time. About a week ago, he grew up all at once in one day. I think there was some marked improvement in his vision, but now his personality is much more positive, he likes to play some, he reaches for things, etc. It's fun watching him do all of these things for the first time.
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Ooo, awesome! That seems like it truly is perfect for you. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love hearing about situations that turn out perfectly like that -- two seemingly disparate chunks of experience and interests meshing perfectly for the next thing you do.
We're having so much fun being parents.
That's wonderful. The pictures are great! Who's the other little one who keeps showing up in there -- a cousin? I bet this is one of the most amazing times for parents, as new babies learn so MUCH. Just operating a body is a lot of skills to learn.
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But I don't like it when people have only cell phones, because they just don't have as good sound quality as land-line phones do. I've got a cell phone, but I'll call people back from a land-line if they reach me on it at home or work. (And yes, I did buy a decently expensive phone.)
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Have you ever worked somewhere that didn't give you a desk phone?
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I've never done the start-up thing. The closest is where I'm contracting now, which was a start-up a couple of years ago, and is now a few hundred people. I'm a techwriter working in the Unix sysadmin group, and I get to hear lots of comments about how it's not like the good ol' days...
(Otoh, I worked for Big-Ass Bank for 10 years, and this is nothing like!)