Working from home
I’ve had a home office of some type for several years now. Last year we built an actual office in our basement (instead of always using an available bedroom for the task). One wall has been painted with IdeaPaint. Painting a whiteboard onto the wall wasn’t cheap but I wanted to cultivate a creative environment. Consequently, my son thinks it’s an awesome place to draw monsters or dinosaurs.
Ultimately it’s still at home. If I’m at home for too long, I tend to get cabin fever and need a change of scenery. I will go to a coffee shop or the library to work and then maybe to the office later in the afternoon. Here are some pros and cons to working from home:
Pros
- No travel time. Just walk downstairs and get going.
- Place to work while kids are running around upstairs.
- Little way of distractions.
Cons
- Easy access for family to interrupt.
- Easy access for family to interrupt.
- Easy access for family to interrupt.
- Too easy to work more often than one should ( aka “all times of day and night” )
Having an office at home also helps keep work and play mostly separate. I play on the PS3, and work on the computer. That allows me to focus on what I am doing at that time and not switch from one to the other too quickly ( when I am walking down to the office, I’m in a working mood. Upstairs is for gaming ).
Having the ability to work from home is great, but I find that I am most productive if it is only one of the places I work from on a regular basis.
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