and how do you deal with it?? It sure isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I do, and it definitely is not what it is cracked up to be. For one thing, you are always at work (except when you are on message boards )

Best advice. Make one room the work office, and at the end of the day, close the door and don't go back in until the next morning.

Blazer, get your a$$ back on your board.

Kidding.

My home is very well insulated and covered by trees, but I wonder what utilities would be if I were here all the time. My company may offer work at home, and I question the cost. I can adjust my utilities up or down and restart 30 minutes prior to my arrival / departure and I am good.
From what I understand, trying to take a bedroom as an office and gaining a tax benefit is difficult.

I have an office that I am in more often than not. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I am no longer driving 75 miles a day back and forth to an office and I sure get a lot done around the house and yard these days.

TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:I have an office that I am in more often than not. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I am no longer driving 75 miles a day back and forth to an office and I sure get a lot done around the house and yard these days.

That's part of the problem. When there is something work related that I am procrastinating on, I end up getting more done around the house, and when there is something I don't want to do around the house, I turn to work. You end of feeling guilty about not doing what you are supposed to be doing.

I have worked out of my home for about 20 years and I have gotten better about it. For the first 17 years or so, I was on the road traveling most of the time, and the home office was a once a week type of thing to do admin things, but now I am pretty much at home full time. With two small children who are homeschooled by my wife who stays home, it gets pretty crowded sometime.

Memphis Blazer Wrote:

TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:I have an office that I am in more often than not. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I am no longer driving 75 miles a day back and forth to an office and I sure get a lot done around the house and yard these days.

That's part of the problem. When there is something work related that I am procrastinating on, I end up getting more done around the house, and when there is something I don't want to do around the house, I turn to work. You end of feeling guilty about not doing what you are supposed to be doing.

I have worked out of my home for about 20 years and I have gotten better about it. For the first 17 years or so, I was on the road traveling most of the time, and the home office was a once a week type of thing to do admin things, but now I am pretty much at home full time. With two small children who are homeschooled by my wife who stays home, it gets pretty crowded sometime.

I couldn't handle it if my wife didn't work outside the home and my step-son wasn't in high school! Hell, I couldn't handle two small kids at all, I kept two of my grandkids on Tuesday and thought I was going to go insane. How in the world a 7 and 5 year old can total a well built computer chair and an entire spare bedroom is beyond me.

I work from home and the biggest problem is that people think you are available all of the time to do whatever they need done. Working from home isn't the same, to them, as working from an office. I doubt most of them even know they feel this way, it's weird psychologically.

TigerBill Wrote:I work from home and the biggest problem is that people think you are available all of the time to do whatever they need done. Working from home isn't the same, to them, as working from an office. I doubt most of them even know they feel this way, it's weird psychologically.

This board is weird "psychologically".

georgiatiger Wrote:

TigerBill Wrote:I work from home and the biggest problem is that people think you are available all of the time to do whatever they need done. Working from home isn't the same, to them, as working from an office. I doubt most of them even know they feel this way, it's weird psychologically.

This board is weird "psychologically".

And psinomically, too. As well as physiologically.

Fortunately or unfortunately - I vacillate on which it is - my work generally only consumes about 3-4 hours of my day so I don't really mind doing other things for someone. In fact I kind of look forward to it to break the monotony.

TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:Fortunately or unfortunately - I vacillate on which it is - my work generally only consumes about 3-4 hours of my day so I don't really mind doing other things for someone. In fact I kind of look forward to it to break the monotony.

sounds like you prevaricate too.