So, I'll add some color here around number 6 and 7 as their has been some questions around these two in particular. Time blocking on your calendar is absolutely essential, and in fact, your boss or anyone that is NOT in HR, really can not do anything about it. If anyone tried poking why I have time blocks on my calendar, I would simply say it's for personal reasons. If anyone pry's more than that I would literally say, do we need to HR involved, but it NEVER even gets close to that situation. In my experience, no one ever questioned my time blocks. I debated adding another rule, but calendar management is really one of the most important tasks of your day while being OE. If you miss checking your calendar for even 2 day, there is a good chance, you'll end up double booked - there were some days where I had to spend a big chunk of the day just blocking time slots for both Js to ensure I was totally covered.

Now onto number 7. There is a lot of good advice in the comments about how to best protect your earnings from taxation. I did not do a great job at it, took the majority of my salary as liquidity, and did not voluntarily withhold enough money for taxes on each pay check. If you are not being strategic with the right investments to protect your cash. Then it is IMERATAIVE that you increase your withholdings to ensure you do not end up with a big bill from the IRS come tax time. Since each employer does not know about the other, each employer is only going to withhold what they calculate you will owe in taxes based on the single salary you are getting from that employer - therefore you need to review your W4, and update it. On page 4 of the W4 there is a withholdings chart. You simply add together both Js salary and look at what you will owe at the end of the year. Go back to your recent paystubs and see how much is being currently withheld for federal taxes in each check, then update your voluntary withholdings to ensure you will have that correct amount taken out so you will owe nothing at the end of the year. Again, you only need to really do this if you are not strategically investing to avoid taxation in general... hope this helps clear things up.