But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.
My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.
I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.
I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.
I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
I have an agreement with the dental office I work for that we'll be closed on Wednesdays.
I arrange it by working four days away from home, and three days at home with the family, so I work four long days rather than five shorter. But it's hard because everything is on hold. We have to restore the family life during the weekends.
My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering
The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.
I work on weekends, but from home.
I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.
I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
At Ostersunds, we had half the players who were part-time and working and the other half were full-time.
My relationship with Marvel is that I work for them.
