Today I didn't go to work, having taken an excuse from work to attend my convocation ceremony which is scheduled for tomorrow in another state… I know I have a boss who's very good at raising the alarm for every little spark, so I wasn't surprised when I saw his call early this morning asking if our server was down because he couldn't access mail. I was still in bed at that time, and since my laptop is just by my side, I just turned it on to check immediately. And like I suspected, it was his bad network at play again and not the server. This is my life every single day, especially when I'm not in the office.
But what if I said the practice of always leaving my PC close to me has been going on way before I started the job. At first it made me feel like a tech bro, having to wake up to my PC sitting beside me made me want to use it to practice any skill I was learning at that time, and now it's not much of a difference because I get to use the skills I was practicing then to work and solve real life problems. For now it's the emergency for me, but I know as time goes on, more reasons would come to make me keep leaving my PC at my bedside.