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]

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