Tips for Corporate Housing

So you have told your company, “Yes, I’ll relocate” having decided that it was your best course of action.  How do you keep yourself working efficiently and productively without spending all your extra money after hours on things you don’t need because you are not used to living away from your family in corporate housing?

Its easy to do but difficult to execute on.  You have to plan ways to keep yourself busy. 

Pack away some DVDs, pack up a Wii, or buy a Nintendo DS for the airport.  Get some audio books as well.  These are all great things to give you some peace and relaxation while keeping your mind off what every you are missing.  Games, audio books and movies can be a Swiss Army knife of mental engagement and help you keep your sanity through some long hours at night.

You need to try and focus on things that will not make you go out and about.  For example, take some DVDs with you to help avoid a trip to the video store where you might then proceed to go shopping and waste some money. 

Better yet get a Netflix account and have them deliver the movies to you, or try Movielink where you can download and watch movies on your laptop.

Odds are during a relocation when you are separated from your family, you will work more hours.  Try and dedicate some of that extra time to long term projects that you can bank or sand bag for a rainy day a few months down the road.  You might work like crazy the first month or two because you have nothing better do do.  But 3 months later when your family joins up with you, you’ll have no spare time and that hard working example you made in the early days might be tarnished by a severe slow down in month 3. 

When that time comes, pull out some of those projects that you completed, but banked and roll them out precooked to your team or company!  This is good for you and your career.  Plus, some of your employees or coworkers may not be able to keep up with you during the first 2 months.  This will enable you to appear to work more at their pace, but still be extra efficient and productive for a longer period of time, matching your pace to theirs through your peak and your valleys.

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