my D.C. analogy...................sm
Posted By: What's normal today?.... on 2006-04-15
In Reply to: I used "normal" multiple times only because the post I responded to used "normal" as the - R
My reference to Washington DC, which, by the way, I separated and put at the very end of the post, had really nothing to do with you. It was merely an example of ALL that is NOT NORMAL in the USA....and I'm sorry I confused you...
By separating my last line, I figured most would get my riff about things not being normal in D.C. 
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Not fair analogy - sm
I worked outside the home for YEARS as an MT and when I came home I had all the classic problems until I recognized it and drew the line. Saying she would not have to ask that question if she had is not a fair assumption.
Your other points are spot on and I totally agree. I just happen to think it is much, much harder to draw those lines because people assume if you are at home, you are approachable. And many women don't realize where "being nice" is getting them until the work's not getting done and she's stressed to the max.
OP, you have to find your own way of setting aside that time and not letting people interrupt you. My husband has always supported me in working, but when I came home, all of a sudden he was calling all the time, it seemed, for me to look up directions on the Internet (he's a serviceman), to remind me to call the bank or any of a number of other little tasks. I finally had to sit him down and in no uncertain terms explain that my being at home was NO different from when I wasn't in terms of his calling me "at work" and it had to stop!
Nice analogy.
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Great analogy to you want fries with that
Often I "find" things in IT that I did not realize I had in there by just glancing when I am typing something that I feel should have an expansion.
The marker keys are a challenge to get used to, I couldn't use spacebar because I was using DQS when I got IT, so I also have my old Autocorrect still active and that works on the spacebar. I use semi and backslash for my markers - I think. The muscle memory is so old that I truly can't remember, it just happens.
I agree with the poster who said to work on one thing at a time and once you notice that it has become easy to do without any thought then move onto something else. I started with working on the phrase side because it is the biggest bang for your buck - more characters with fewer keystrokes.
I think the key to being successful with IT after the learning curve is finding a rhythm and just keep filling it up with expansions that make sense to you so you don't have to search for them. I often use the first two words of a long phrase as the short form because it will show up if I start typing it and I can just marker the rest of it in.
I wish you good luck figuring it out and would encourage you to stick with it and find your own tricks to it, as I think it really makes a difference in the fatigue factor, which is more important some days than line count.
I think someone mentioned Productivity Talk and the IT website, which both have lots of tips and tricks too.
Kelli
What a perfect analogy! Shoot, I switched offices in my own home and it took a good 2 wks
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