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- Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to a work week in New Zealand.
I'm working from my sister's house this week.
I'm here in her basement, study, office space.
It's Monday for me right now in New Zealand
but for my workmates in the U.S
it's still like Sunday afternoon.
So this is a very weird situation.
It feels really strange to work remotely
for a U.S company from New Zealand
cause the time difference is so large
that I am actually like in the future compared to my team
but I've been making it work.
I've had many early morning meetings
and I've tried to shift around as much
as I can to avoid that happening.
But yeah,
I've quite honestly been appreciating the early days
because it means that I've finished my day
a whole lot earlier which is very different, as you know
from my work in Spain when I am usually working
until 8:00 PM in the evening.
But yeah, Monday should be a pretty quiet day
because there's not really gonna be anyone else online.
I have my list of stuff to do today that I wrote
on Friday and it's already looking pretty long to be honest.
So I guess let's get into it
and see how much I can get through.
I'm home alone right now
but I'm gonna put headphones on
because I think it's just gonna help me focus.
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Okay. I've gotten some good work done this morning.
Not as much as I would've hoped,
but right now I'm actually running late of course,
to head into town and meet Holly for lunch.
Holly is the graphic designer
that we work with at ConvertKit.
I've known her for a while and always like to catch
up with her whenever I'm in Wellington.
So let's gather our things and go do that.
And I think I'm gonna also try working
from a coffee shop after lunch because I mean
that's just not something that I've been able to do
for a very long time living in Spain during the pandemic.
So in New Zealand it's more of an option.
So let's do that.
It'll be fun.
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- Wow. I'm so out of the habit of vlogging
that I've pretty much filmed nothing
of meeting up with Holly.
We went to Pickle and Five lunch.
It was great.
And worked for a little bit in the library,
which was lovely.
Now I'm gonna go to the bus stop
and we'll head back to her house.
I hope you can hear me through the mask.
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It is 4:55 AM.
And this is the realities
of working remotely for a U.S company from New Zealand.
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All right, I'm feeling a little bit more awake now.
And now I also have a real coffee, not just the-
these iced coffees that I bought to like just grab quickly
from the fridge in the morning.
If it will focus.
No never mind.
Meetings this morning went good.
We did some planning
for the future belongs to creators podcast
which is one that I do over on the
ConvertKit YouTube channel.
I'll put a link to it up on a card
because if you are interested
in like side hustles and that kind of thing
I think you really enjoy tuning in live when we do that.
We go live at 12:30 Eastern time
which is 6:30 Europe time.
And it's gonna be 6:30
in the morning here in New Zealand time for me next week.
But yeah, we were planning
out episodes for the start of the year.
It's fun to do that with two of my workmates who you saw.
Coming up next I have a one-on-one with my manager.
That's gonna be my last meeting of the day.
The last meeting, my day wrapped
up by 9:30 AM is pretty good.
So I should hopefully be able to have
a good productive afternoon,
getting stuck into some design stuff
cause I found it honestly really hard to focus
so far this week.
But last week I had the same situation
and Thursday ended up being the best day for me.
So fingers crossed this Thursday as well.
Will be a good one.
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Well, I had a pretty successful work day.
Got lots done that I needed to.
One thing that I did, that's sort of been
like putting off for a while is define a system.
Let me show you...
for our like break points and grids.
This is something that I know a lot of people
have asked me about in the past
when I've done videos about our design system.
Previously, we used the bootstrap grid.
Now we're doing something a little bit different
based on tailwind.
Which I don't know, might mean something
to some people and nothing to others.
That would be Finn feeling upset.
But yeah, I'll do a more in depth video on this
when we get it sorted.
But this was just me outlining my thinking
for the team and highlighting what might need to change.
Just went to the supermarket.
Now I am doing a bit of side hustle stuff
and it is only like 4:30.
So this whole, I don't know, I started the day really early
but it's also really nice to have finished work
by like 2:00 PM and you know, get to be doing my own thing.
I got a little helper, yeah.
- There's mama
- There's mama.
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Welcome to Friday everybody.
I had six hours of meetings today
almost back to back from like 6:00 AM till noon.
It was very exhausting for an introvert like me
even though they're zoom calls to just,
you know, be talking to people
and having to be like actively listening that whole time.
I somehow managed to get my whole to-do list
done today though, in like the hour after my meetings.
And so that was great.
Like I am ending the week feeling
like I did what I needed to work.
So that's nice.
Right now I am dealing with this mess right here
because I am packing up to head up to Auckland this weekend.
Let's see if we can see you down here.
My family doesn't all live in one place in New Zealand.
My sister's in Wellington, my parents are in Tauranga
and my like extended family are all in Auckland.
And so yeah, this weekend I'm going up,
meeting my parents there.
We're gonna stay with my aunt and uncle.
Go see my Nan.
Maybe see a cousin, another aunt and uncle.
I don't know.
It's gonna be a real family focused weekend.
I have to head to the airport in like
probably about an hour.
And so yeah I need to pack up all this.
I haven't even showered yet today
because like I said, six hours of meetings.
Luckily in one of my meetings, it was a one on one.
And my, the person on my team
didn't mind me making some toast
and eating it during the meeting.
So yeah.
Whew. I'm now wondering how I managed to fit all this stuff
into my suitcase on the way here.
Also I think my camera is like,
well it's had a child's hands touching the lens
and so it might be a little bit blurry.
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I completely forgot to update you after that flight
but it was a very stressful time
because I nearly missed it.
I went to the wrong gate.
There was two flights
to Auckland leaving from Burlington airport
at the exact same time.
And like an idiot I did not check the flight number.
I just saw the time, the destination.
I was like, that must be my flight.
It's a small airport.
So I went through like the wrong security
because the one airline provider uses different security
to the other.
And so then when I realized it was
like boarding that flight,
which meant that my actual flight was also boarding
and I had to talk to like some of the airport workers
and get them to take me back out through security
and like run across the airport to the other gate.
Lucky for me, because I hadn't booked
on like a budget airline.
I'd booked on air New Zealand
which is like our national airline.
They rang me cause I checked a bag in, and were like,
"Hey you still planning on boarding the flight"?
I was like, yeah, I'm like running right now.
And so they basically held the plane for me
which was very kind.
I felt very sheepish getting on, but hey,
we still landed in Auckland until like ten minutes early.
So I don't feel too bad.
I spent the week working
from my parents' house feeling not great, honestly.
Yeah. Busy week of work also
I had my booster shot, so I was just very very tired
for a little like half of the week, but yeah.
Hope you enjoy the vlog and I'll be back
with another week in my work life in New Zealand vlog.
Hopefully I'll show you more of Wellington,
more of the Mount where my parents live as well in that.
So yeah.
Thanks for watching.
And I'll see you then.
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