Redundant bridge

When I first started work, there was no possibility of working from home. With no internet, no home computer, and leased lines being prohibitively expensive, I had to go where the work was. 

I bought my first PC in 1995 and it was around that time, while I was working for Bradford and Bingley, that I first did some work from home, but that was updating specs in the evening in order to try and stay on top of a very intense project with an immovable deadline. 

It wasn't until I was working for JPMorgan in 2002 that I first worked from home in the sense that we mean it today. Usually one day a week, I would work from Kirkby Lonsdale, which took the sting out of being away in London during the week when Dan still was actually the Little Fella.

In 2004, I was invited onto a project based in New York and whilst I was out there for a week every so often, most of the time I was fully working from home. It took me a while to get to grips with it, to be honest. My initial concern that I needed to be able to demonstrate eight hours of work a day had me working both UK and New York hours but eventually I got into the swing of it.

Of course, this year, for a lot of people, it's become the norm rather than the exception. And I have to say that for our company, it's worked very well. For the most part everyone is working from home and that's just fine. Steve and I occasionally go into the office and I enjoy the companionship when we are in at the same time. 

It's also given me the flexibility to work at the office in the morning, do a run  along the river and canal, and then go home to shower before working from home in the afternoon. Thus today I was able to do the six mile route that goes along the river to Sedgwick and then back along the (filled in) canal. Here's another of those redundant bridges.

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Reading: 'The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett