Ellen Callinan Isn't a Slacker

Ellen Callinan, Senior Consultant with Axelroth & Associates and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, reflects on how her traditional weekends off have disappeared from her work routine since consulting from home at Flexible Weekends. She's no slacker! Just yesterday, Ellen and I were IM-ing about our retirement plans. She will be working well into her 80s. Years and years and years of working weekends to come ... hope you have this weekend off Ellen. Update from Ellen: Nope, she's working! [JH]

Judge Richard Posner on Why He Isn't a Slacker: "Procrastination is very unhealthy. It causes problems for the people who are counting on you to complete things in a timely fashion and it makes your own life more difficult. … It helps to be a little compulsive. Then you feel uncomfortable if something is hanging over you—that’s the opposite of procrastination, a compulsion to complete things and get rid of the albatross hanging over you. … I have that compulsion." Quoted from Slate's Workers of the world, slack off! Check out the Slate article for responses to the publication's survey of procrastination rituals. See, for example, the response from a CIA agent (lost in information overload) and an NFL cheerleader ("One big thing we procrastinate on is tanning. We have to have color, because our uniforms are really light.")