Day 2 - Up and moving

Okay, so here it is the end of the month. As way of background, I have been a real estate attorney for the last 5-10 years (I don't want to pinpoint my exact number years in the business, to help retain my anonymity...for now). I get up at 5-6am each weekday, leave my home at 7:30-7:45am, commute to my office and arrive around 8:45-9:00am (If I am lucky), work until 6:30-7:30pm, then arrive home around 7:30pm-8:30pm each night. I really don't mind the "long" hours, but the commute can be a pain. I would love to be working from home, but it's not really an option at this time. Even as I type this right now, I am listening to a "multiple streams of income" .mp3 to try to encourage me to pull away from the job. But I am digressing a little bit.

Anyway, here is my rant for the day. I spend 8-10 hours working and 2-3 hours commuting. Unfortunately, my clients, the loan officers, seem to love placing phone calls to us starting a 3-4pm in the afternoon, after coming into their office at 11am-noon. Where were they when I was in my office at 8:30am? They were asleep.

Yes, (1) I know they usually work solely on commission, (2) I know that they work long hours with not a large guarantee of a stable monthly income, (3) I know that we at the escrow company are lucky to even get business during this mortgage downturn.

But, if you are a hotshot young gentleman loan officer, or realtor that just loves (a) to roll in your office at noon, (b) call me at 3pm, 3:02pm, 3:12pm, and 3:15pm to try to force a loan closing at 5pm - at my office and to let me know that the loan documents will be delivered to our office at 4:45pm, (c) knowing that I am working on client's files: Refi file A, Purchase file B, Refi file C, Jacked Up foreclosure file D - (d) and then email me at 7pm to ask "where are we on File Z"?, (e) be chatting it up with clients at home at 9pm, (f) then hitting the bars or clubs until 2-3am, and (g) texting a hot girl (all while your own wife and kids are home asleep - more on that later...) at 5am, then (h) rolling into bed at 6am, then I have very little sympathy or tolerance for you and your files.

In the next day or so, probably tomorrow, the last day of the month, I will cover ... THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH. Other blogs will cover Common Courtesy & My Holiday Wish List 2007. Thanks again - let me know how I'm doing.