Field Street Forum

By John Frierson
Staff Writer

Josh Brooks is still hard at work in his job as Georgia’s Senior Deputy Athletic Director. While he’s working from home these days he’s also wearing a different hat, a chef’s hat. Brooks is savoring the chance to do as much cooking as possible for his family, making the most of this strange and unfortunate circumstance that has him and so many of us home all day long.

Brooks made a little time for a Quick Chat on Monday and talked about working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, his sports background, cooking, drawing and much more. Here’s some of what he had to say:

Frierson: What is it like having to do your job from home now?

Brooks: Luckily for me, my wife is a schoolteacher so she’s not able to go into work and she’s able to spend the majority of her time with our kids and handle the home-schooling for our family. I am participating as the lunch lady and custodian of the Brooks Home School Academy.

I’m able to close the door and make our bedroom the makeshift office, and still be active with the emails and calls and everything. I’m a very regimented-type person so I’ve tried to keep that normalcy to my day: I’m waking up at the same time and trying to exercise in the morning, eat breakfast and then be working at the same time I normally would be.

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