Call Me Lazy, But I Love My Home
Friday June 13, 2008
After two weeks in New York City (both work and pleasure), I am quite happy to be back home. A lot of this stems from the fact that I'm back at my own desk, in my own office. I never realized how annoying it was to remember passwords to each site, to have my clients' addresses four or five clicks away, instead of right at my fingertips, or to have to look up all my reference questions, instead of simply reaching down one foot with my right hand. Call me lazy, but I don't like all the extra work and fumbling that comes with working while traveling!
It's good to be home!
How about you? Do you have a home office- or at least a space? Do you work while camping, traveling, or at coffee shops?
I can’t wait to have my own home office someday. I just feel like having my own space will help my productivity, and I hope to work from home full time. Right now we have a family computer in the friggin’ family room. Good times.
I have a home office and a half since I’m in between moving out of one side of the house into another. I mainly use my office as storage and staging grounds for projects. This is because there are no windows and I seem to concentrate well with some kind of “people” noise like my son on the phone with his girlfriend or my husband yelling at the Boston Celtics on TV. Every once in a while I work in my office, but it is usually on visual arts projects.
I have a very nice home office right off the living room. One desk for paperwork another for the computer. I enjoy all the time I put in this room and feel productive when there. I am looking forward to making a home based business and utilizing my office more often.
lol Jen. I can imagine. My office (which is actually just an unused bedroom and so has closets stuffed full of STUFF) can feel like a family room. WE have TV in here SUPPOSEDLY for the treadmill, but one or another of the kids always end up in here watching it. And commenting on it. And turning it up s uper loud.
Rachael, I can understand the need for windows…but did you know that famous writers like Poe and Whitman intentionally faced their desks toward walls or bookcases to cut down on distractions? I could probably beenfit from that.
Definitely love my home… for now, I have an amazing writing room for nothing but literary pursuits, pens, papers, and the like. I may have to relocate soon and the thought of giving this writing utopia up truly hurts!
As far as “lazy”, don’t you agree you get much more done at home?
Three offices. Each with a unique purpose. Each with what I need close at hand.
Home office (main) has two workstations for photographic post production work.
Living room office = my favorite chair with my laptop computer. The laptop, by the way perches on the arm of the chair because my laptop is taken up by my puppy.
Coffeehouse office: where we meet to exchange ideas, woes, laments, solutions, affirmations, encouragement and ‘most anything else.
With few exceptions, I try to keep everything on the laptop so I can work anywhere. (Except for the photography.)
I have been working from home since January. I LOVE IT! My full time job is quantifiable,meaning there are all sorts of charts and percentages and numbers that indicate how effective the team is at any given point. My “numbers” as expected have increased as have the other at home team members. The quality of my work has improved because I am out of the day to day challenges of living in a cube farm!