Comments on: Home Office Pros and Con http://beingajackal.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/home-office-pros-and-con/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mamabeek http://beingajackal.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/home-office-pros-and-con/#comment-91 Mamabeek Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:05:02 +0000 http://beingajackal.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-91 Yep, yep! Common problem among those who work from home. AR and I decided at one point that Wednesday would be good for a day off because nobody is on the beaches, hiking trails, in restaurants and so forth that day. But the trick was, we didn't take weekends at all then and mostly didn't take Wednesdays either. If one was working the other felt guilty and so forth. You have to set REALLY firm boundaries to keep from burning yourself out. I hate forcing myself into a schedule because, I mean, what is the POINT of working at home if you can't be utterly spontaneous, sleep in, work at midnight and so forth? But the evil Type A monster will get you if you don't look out... Then later on comes the pet monster. Get all organized, get your hot drinkie and your comfy pillow behind you and fuzzy blanket over your knees and start working... cat wants out. Unbury yourself and let cat out. Get all set again... bird needs moving. Get up, move bird. Sit down a little less comfortably and try to get your head back into the work. Notice tea is cold. Get up and reheat tea. Sit back down with hot tea, work five minutes... cat wants back in. And so goes the day. Sigh. Yep, yep! Common problem among those who work from home. AR and I decided at one point that Wednesday would be good for a day off because nobody is on the beaches, hiking trails, in restaurants and so forth that day. But the trick was, we didn’t take weekends at all then and mostly didn’t take Wednesdays either. If one was working the other felt guilty and so forth. You have to set REALLY firm boundaries to keep from burning yourself out. I hate forcing myself into a schedule because, I mean, what is the POINT of working at home if you can’t be utterly spontaneous, sleep in, work at midnight and so forth? But the evil Type A monster will get you if you don’t look out…

Then later on comes the pet monster. Get all organized, get your hot drinkie and your comfy pillow behind you and fuzzy blanket over your knees and start working… cat wants out. Unbury yourself and let cat out. Get all set again… bird needs moving. Get up, move bird. Sit down a little less comfortably and try to get your head back into the work. Notice tea is cold. Get up and reheat tea. Sit back down with hot tea, work five minutes… cat wants back in. And so goes the day. Sigh.

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