If you could work from home...

[superqt4u2nv]

would you?

Didn't think I would however I was given remote access today because of the prmotion and of course I got home after the gym logged in and did 3 quotes and went through a few emails.

 

[calveless wonder]

I do right now, and it fuckin blows.

i feel like a god damn hermit, i get so unfocused and distracted.
worst thing ever if you ADHD

some days i work hard, but i probably work at 65-70% capacity at my house.

now, i have no problem working a few hours on a weekend, or on a busy day when i'm bouncing around meeting clients, or after hours logging in to check e-mails and talk to a few clients. but all the time sucks

something about putting on a dress shirt/dress pants or a suit and walking into a professional environment that makes you want to take on the world

 

[jh1]

I do get hermit syndrome on certain days, but then I just make sure that I have social meeting with clients the rest of the week.

I get alot more done, but it fits my personality and my work. I have to get up and walk away quite a bit, but I pretty much diddle in work during all my waking hours because I am not chained to a fucking desk.

 

[KillahBee]

I do and it's....interesting. It just so happens to be my busiest time of the year so it kind of sucks, but here are a few thoughts:

- awesome to wake up and do work for a while before showering
- awesome to work in shorts and nothing else
- awesome to have food in the fridge right there whenever I need it
- awesome to be able to go and do errands whenever I feel (note: my "office" back home was an agency so there was no clockwatching going on)
- awesome to be able to lay by the pool or play basketball for a break
- awesome to not have 10000000 people coming by the desk all day asking me shit which totally fucks my schedule
- sucks to not be around my friends / coworkers
- sucks to not be around the dozens of really hot 21yo girls I work with
- sucks to not be able to go to company happy hours, etc
- sucks to do fucking expense reports
- awesome to be able to order anything for my house and expense it
- awesome to expense internet, phone, fax
- awesome to get free flights home
- sucks to not be able to walk to someone's desk to ask em a question / bitch at em
- sucks when you work 15 hour days and, instead of being in the office with a few other people in the same boat, you stare out the window at the fucking pool and beach

In the end, it'll be worth it. Once it slows down and I figure out my schedule, it will be AWESOME to be able to do the things I want when I want (surf, lift, ride my bike, etc).

 

[calveless wonder]

I do get hermit syndrome on certain days, but then I just make sure that I have social meeting with clients the rest of the week.

I get alot more done, but it fits my personality and my work. I have to get up and walk away quite a bit, but I pretty much diddle in work during all my waking hours because I am not chained to a fucking desk.

you're lucky. most of my clients i deal with are strictly over the phone.

hence the reason it sucks. also i rather deal with my attorneys, processors etc face to face, which i only have access to in an office.

i also don't have the discipline, but that's just me.

cold calling or calling leads also fuckin sucks from home. i've learned to kind of get over it by using speaker phone all the time and drinking a bunch of redbull, but there's something about the buzz of 10 people pounding the phones at the same time or trying to sell clients at once

 

[jh1]

isolation from co-workers does suck...
but my company does a good job of attempting to make up for it.
I can go to any city I feel like on a whim to hang out with peers in those citys, plus we get together and hoop it up on a regualar basis. Including overseas.

 

[superqt4u2nv]

isolation from co-workers does suck...
but my company does a good job of attempting to make up for it.
I can go to any city I feel like on a whim to hang out with peers in those citys, plus we get together and hoop it up on a regualar basis. Including overseas.

If I was as (smart) as you I would ask if they were hiring for Canada

 

[jh1]

If I was as (smart) as you I would ask if they were hiring for Canada

We have a HUGE force in canada - in fact we just did a customer event in Calgary... I couldn't make it, but 10 or so peeps from my region went....

ur all like our 51st state and stuff.

ur pretty ... I think you'd fit in.

 

[velvett]

I get more done in a shorter period of time.

It's nice not to have anyone babbling endlessly about their spouse and kids (same stories over and over) or asking mundane questions like how do you change the ink in the copier, why doesn't the fax work, where is so and so file, my computer is frozen, I can't, I need, blah blah blah.

If I had known how much I like working for and by myself I would have done it long ago.

 

[sixxtoes]

Does Web Cam Porn Count As Working From Home?

 

[superqt4u2nv]

We have a HUGE force in canada - in fact we just did a customer event in Calgary... I couldn't make it, but 10 or so peeps from my region went....

ur all like our 51st state and stuff.

ur pretty ... I think you'd fit in.

Smart move Alberta has sick amount of money right now. Any Canadian lead list floating around happy to help close some business.

OMG at 51st

I act as if I am pretty at times when in fact most technical shit I am fuckin clueless on.

 

[velvett]

I do right now, and it fuckin blows.

i feel like a god damn hermit, i get so unfocused and distracted.
worst thing ever if you ADHD

some days i work hard, but i probably work at 65-70% capacity at my house.

now, i have no problem working a few hours on a weekend, or on a busy day when i'm bouncing around meeting clients, or after hours logging in to check e-mails and talk to a few clients. but all the time sucks

something about putting on a dress shirt/dress pants or a suit and walking into a professional environment that makes you want to take on the world

Dude, get up early take a shower and get dressed as you would in a "pro environment" if it makes you feel better.

Check emails, make return calls, make to do list for the day - get as much as possible done.

Take a long lunch - go out to lunch, or take your lunch out and go to a park or something then go do some window shopping or something - meet friends for lunch near their place of work.

Get back - do more work.

Finish up - change and go to the gym.

 

[jack sparrow]

Dude, get up when your are done sleeping take a shower and get dressed as you would in a "pro environment" if it makes you feel better.

Check emails, make return calls, make to do list for the day - get as much as possible done.

Take a long lunch - go out to lunch, or take your lunch out and go to a park or something then go do some window shopping or something - meet friends for lunch near their place of work.

Get back - do more work.

Finish up - change and go to the gym.

Fixed.

 

[Wulfgar]

working from home has its benefits...work seems to follow me everywhere though..i feel i am most productive when i am working away from home though.

 

[KillahBee]

Another HUGE challenge (mentally) is waking up and looking at your desk (mine is actually in my fucking bedroom). There is no separation of work and home. If you're like me (working on a deck at 9:18 at night), you'll NEVER stop working.

You have to have constraint - if you find some, please mail to me.

 

[Wulfgar]

Another HUGE challenge (mentally) is waking up and looking at your desk (mine is actually in my fucking bedroom). There is no separation of work and home. If you're like me (working on a deck at 9:18 at night), you'll NEVER stop working.

You have to have constraint - if you find some, please mail to me.

Amen
I was up working on a project for work @ 2 am this past saturday. looked at the clock and was like wtf? i ended up staying up till 4 to finish the section i was doing.

 

[FriendlyCanadian]

We have a HUGE force in canada - in fact we just did a customer event in Calgary... I couldn't make it, but 10 or so peeps from my region went....

ur all like our 51st state and stuff.

ur pretty ... I think you'd fit in.

shit dude, you should have made.

you me and woot could have met up for drinks, that would have been awesome.

 

[ceo]

something about putting on a dress shirt/dress pants or a suit and walking into a professional environment that makes you want to take on the world

really? cuz I fucking hate wearing dress shirt and pants...and god forbid a TIE. I work better when I am comfy. Put me in shorts and a T with flip flops any day mofo.

dressing up blows. guess I am too old for that shit.

 

[canadianhitman]

I've done it for a few years now, and LOVE working from home. Nothing beats sitting in the comfort of your home office and looking out the window at the schmucks going to work when there's a snowstorm/thunderstorm going on outside.

 

[puddlemonkey]

I wouldn't get anything done at home. Not that I get anything done at work anyway.

 

[heatherrae]

I'm not sure. I would like to stay home with the baby, but I would probably get nothing done that way. Plus, my job isn't really amenable to staying home.

 

[Smurfy]

I stay connected pretty much 24/7 which is good but sucky in other ways/It means I never quite get away from work. I simply cant ignore emails that come in. and i get roughly 100 or more a day. So long as I have email, I am working. Although things have slowed down a bit lately and I do less and less from home nowadays. But since I manage a call center, it's not like working from home is ideal. but yeah it's nice not being bothered by everyone and their brother coming up to my desk when Im working on something or on a conference call, etc,.

 

[musclemom]

Another HUGE challenge (mentally) is waking up and looking at your desk (mine is actually in my fucking bedroom). There is no separation of work and home. If you're like me (working on a deck at 9:18 at night), you'll NEVER stop working.

You have to have constraint - if you find some, please mail to me.

GET THAT SHIT OUT OF THERE!!!

Look, I know you think I'm full of shit, KB, but I had that set up for years (I've been fully self employed for over four years now). This is the first year I moved my desk and shit out of the bedroom, and had a separate "office" and the mental difference it's made is 1000 fold. When you work from home, and have that workspace in your bedroom it's exhausting.

If you have to create a separate area in your living room or dining room, do it. But get your office out of the bedroom, mentally you're NEVER leaving work.

The other thing, it gives you more of a "I'm going to work feel," when you have the workspace separated.

Additionally, any space you give over to work is tax deductible. If you actually have a separate room/space you can deduct the space of that room (even if it's an apartment).

 

[calveless wonder]

GET THAT SHIT OUT OF THERE!!!

Look, I know you think I'm full of shit, KB, but I had that set up for years (I've been fully self employed for over four years now). This is the first year I moved my desk and shit out of the bedroom, and had a separate "office" and the mental difference it's made is 1000 fold. When you work from home, and have that workspace in your bedroom it's exhausting.

If you have to create a separate area in your living room or dining room, do it. But get your office out of the bedroom, mentally you're NEVER leaving work.

The other thing, it gives you more of a "I'm going to work feel," when you have the workspace separated.

Additionally, any space you give over to work is tax deductible. If you actually have a separate room/space you can deduct the space of that room (even if it's an apartment).

Totally agree with you.
i have the same thing and it's totally exhausting. I figured if i had a separate room it wouldn't be as bad. there's no way to separate work/home and for me, the comfort of being home takes over moreso than my work. especially due to the fact that i can barely work some months, and still making a killing by luck or just the law of averages (prospect conversion). very easy to become complacent

 

[blueta2]

When I owned a biz, I worked from home for almost 5 yrs. I like that I could work in my pj's til noon, go for a swim at lunch. Go go the gym, then back home to work a little more.
I would do it again too. No traffic, no small talk, no having to figure out what to wear every day, no making lunch the night before, no office politics etc....

 

[calveless wonder]

blah, all you motherbitches are old and got discipline and maturity...and stuff

 

[blueta2]

blah, all you motherbitches are old and got discipline and maturity...and stuff

true, but not always. When I first started at home, any little thing would distract me. I would always say "I'll start this after Donahue" etc....hahah
The dicipline only came with much time and effort.

 

[KillahBee]

GET THAT SHIT OUT OF THERE!!!

Look, I know you think I'm full of shit, KB, but I had that set up for years (I've been fully self employed for over four years now). This is the first year I moved my desk and shit out of the bedroom, and had a separate "office" and the mental difference it's made is 1000 fold. When you work from home, and have that workspace in your bedroom it's exhausting.

If you have to create a separate area in your living room or dining room, do it. But get your office out of the bedroom, mentally you're NEVER leaving work.

The other thing, it gives you more of a "I'm going to work feel," when you have the workspace separated.

Additionally, any space you give over to work is tax deductible. If you actually have a separate room/space you can deduct the space of that room (even if it's an apartment).

I agree, but until someone wants to give me the money to get an apt with an extra room this will have to suffice. Such is life, ya know.

 

[Nathan]

Oh man, I'd need more cash to fund all the extra smoking I'd surely be doing. No, it's just a bad idea. I can't be trusted. Though it's not like i haven't found ways to entertain myself online for entire days. Crap.

 

[the_clockwork]

I would like to but couldn't do it.. I'd be lazy and just lay by the pool all day and sleep in til noon

 

[bluepeter]

I work from home. Not having to go into the office and pretend to be nice to people I despise is awesome.

 

[Smurfy]

When I owned a biz, I worked from home for almost 5 yrs. I like that I could work in my pj's til noon, go for a swim at lunch. Go go the gym, then back home to work a little more.
I would do it again too. No traffic, no small talk, no having to figure out what to wear every day, no making lunch the night before, no office politics etc....

no sexual harrassment and perverted old men!

 

[superqt4u2nv]

Being in the kind of sales I am in the enviroment helps a lot to push me to be better. It has been less then a week in my new postion and my stats are up cause I have to live up to my position and trully be the team lead in my mind that means being number on in everything not just sales.

 

[Dial_tone]

if I work from home it's because something is fucked up and I'm trying to save a drive to fix it.