REQUEST A SOFTWARE DEMO WITH TIMEZONE HOW TO

With these tips in my back pocket, I hope there will be many, many more time zone adventures.

REQUEST A SOFTWARE DEMO WITH TIMEZONE HOW TO

I’ve written articles from a hammock in Indonesia and brainstormed tips from the Hofbrauhaus in Munich, and I wouldn’t have been able to do any of this without learning how to make time zones work for me. I wouldn’t trade the ability to locate my office anywhere in the world, I think it’s just the coolest part of the technological age. It was a total facepalm moment, but I also learned a new tool to add to my arsenal for seamlessly working across time zones and maintaining a work-life balance while traveling the world. Google calendar has a setting that you can choose your home time zone and then appointments will always be scheduled in that time zone unless you choose otherwise. Every single meeting was scheduled for the wrong time.īut, I learned something new.

Little did I know at the time, I booked every appointment for eastern time (Florida) when I live in the central time zone (Texas). I also put in a few hours each afternoon writing and scheduling client appointments (for after my vacation). I spent a week in Florida in February collecting seashells, eating the best doughnuts in existence, and reading at least a book a day.

What would normally cause late nights and a lot of unwanted stress, worked beautifully because I was overseas and eight hours ahead of the rest of the team. The efficiency greatly satisfied my type-A heart. I could edit all day and send the edits back to the client in my afternoon, just as they got back up and were starting to write again. When they went to bed, it was my morning. Woe is the editing life.īut there was a really bright light with me being in Berlin and the client being stateside. That’s a problem when editing studies because typically the researchers are still writing it mere days before submission. I’m also a morning person, I do my best, most efficient work between 7 and 10 am. Now I’ll be frank, I don’t like editing on a deadline because there’s only so much editing a girl can do. While in Berlin, I also gained two new clients-one needing my help in editing a research study under a tight deadline. presidential election in the German capital. To maintain my moniker of a part-time world traveler, I spent winter 2016 in Europe, living in Berlin for all of November. Because if you don’t, it’s too easy to get stuck in time zone hell. When your clients are located in a different time zone, like a really different time zone, you quickly learn how to make adjustments to your life, in order to make the relationship work. Working while traveling can be the ultimate dream, but there’s also the potential for a lot of problems. Each year I spend a few months overseas, traveling and living the backpack lifestyle. Ahhh, the glamorous life of a part-time digital nomad.

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