people think working from home means you havent got a real job dont they?

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im sick of explaining to friends (with better paying, regular 9-5, 5 days a week jobs) that i work from home to their nonplussed look of disbelief and scepticism. sorry, but i DO actually work from home. its what freelancers do! we cant help but work from home, sadly.

― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Take your daughter to work day is the most uncomfortable.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

My best friend works at home for one of the biggest companies in the world. He frequently sits in his pajama bottoms, playing the guitar, while a teleconference takes place on his speaker phone.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I work part-time from home. That's even harder for people to wrap their heads around sometimes.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They're just jealous.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

granted, a slightly too large percentage of my day can *sometimes* seem to comprise of little more than perusing ILX, but thats not everyday, honest guv.

― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Does an at-home workday include nap time?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine would. And snacks.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Naps vs health insurance?

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now, I would choose NAPS!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oz of prevention?

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I work from home, should work harder. I have one major client and not enough motivation to go find more. God forbid she gets hit by a bus. (She got stomped by a rampaging heifer at a livestock show last year and MY life flashed before my eyes.)

Naps, yes, absolutely.

I have health insurance through the Natl. Assn. for the Self-Employed, but I need to start comparison shopping. Paid $205/mo. at first, then $246, and just got a letter than it's going to $298 as of February.

I sum up working from home like this: DSL is a deductible expense.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Rent is a deductible expense for me. Well, 1/3 of it is. And DSL, and I'm checking into coffee.
Also, now that I'm writing about comic books, COMIC BOOKS ARE DEDUCTIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Are snacks deductible?

xpost, omg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

granted, a slightly too large percentage of my day can *sometimes* seem to comprise of little more than perusing ILX, but thats not everyday, honest guv.

This is different from working at an office how?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mushrush.com/randomfat/carl.gif

I already told you I work outta the home!

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the bad thing about working from home is that sometimes, the flexibility goes out of control and the day knows no end, so you might be starting late, but you might still be working when people are having dinner, then when youd rather be watching shamelss, and then when youd rather be in bed not working, youre still at it by the PC.

― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"I work from home, should work harder. I have one major client and not enough motivation to go find more."

same here. i need more money. thats my motivation, but i cant seem to get it to actually motivate me. maybe i need to get strung on the street for motivation to kick in. only problem then would be that i wouldnt be working from home at all. id probably be working from easynet.

― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It's taken one of my flatmates the best part of six months to accept the fact that just because I am here all day doesn't mean I am on perma-day off and I am actually doing stuff, so other people's washing up is not my responsibility. That said, if I was working from home and not living in a shared house I think I would be crazy and unable to talk to people when I eventually emerged.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I so totally deduct coffee. Since my office is a separate building from the house, I figured the percentage of total square footage, and deduct that percentage of mortgage, electric, gas. Business has its own phone line, so I deduct all of that and none of the home line.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I've worked from home on / off for the last five years, and always got branded as a 'slacker', despite busting my arse off with often long hours and crap pay and little to no social contact.

Funny thing is, I recently started a full time 'outside' job, and seem to do far less work there than I'd been doing at home.

― Mil (Mil), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I would saw off my right foot with a butterknife to be able to work from home. And the sad thing is, for the type of work I do, there's no reason why I can't (other than the fact that the powers that be won't let me).

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Out-of-town house guests can get annoying. Particularly if they hang about making noise and talking to you while you're trying to work. Even more so if you're trying to read ilx and they want to come see what you're "working on."

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

But these days, "working from home" for me really does mean sitting around in my pyjamas, watching TV, then knocking off early and going down the pub. That's why they keep insisting that I come in the office. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

you have blown our cover.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is, previous freelance work when I was working from home, I really was slaving fourteen hours a day over a hot database. But now they know that I have a Mac and no connection to the interweb and therefore no connection to their network, I'm only mucking about. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Even more so if you're trying to read ilx and they want to come see what you're "working on."

This is why I like the plain design of ILx. My flatmates all work weird hours and pop into my room every so often. Ilx looks like a work site. It looks serious at least.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The wonder job that I was offered a couple of years ago but fell through when the client decided to take its business elsewhere would have given me 2-3 days a week working from home and the rest in the office. Other than the annoyance of travel expense, I can't think of a more ideal working situation.

Now that I work for an agency representing writers who do stay at home all day, I have to say I get terribly jealous every time I have to phone them using their home phone numbers. I wish I could be one of them.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It may sound weird, but having worked from home so much, I actually prefer working in an office (part time, mind you). Because it means that I get to keep a more clear delineation between work and home life.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I was exactly the same. I like seeing people at work too. I wouldn't want to go back to working at home, although every now and again I do it for a day or so and wind up getting ten times as much stuff done.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"It may sound weird, but having worked from home so much, I actually prefer working in an office (part time, mind you). Because it means that I get to keep a more clear delineation between work and home life."

i work in an office three days a week and at home two days a week, but wish my job was five days a week in an office. i dislike coming home then having to sit by the comp a few hours more and continue working when id rather just watch TV or go out or something.

― ppp, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

See, my last job was three days in an office working, two days at home working on symphonies. That was the perfect balance.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I started renting an office a few months ago; before that I worked at home. It's a relief to go home from work.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is why I like the plain design of ILx. My flatmates all work weird hours and pop into my room every so often. Ilx looks like a work site. It looks serious at least.

Oh, it does, does it?

http://www.greysquirrel.net/pics/rebomb.gif http://www.greysquirrel.net/pics/cat.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Working from home was so depressing for me. It really made me mental. I never left home and when I did I felt weird like I didn't belong in the outside world and everyone knew it.

― Snoozefest, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at that person, I bet they work from home.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

I LOVE working from home, it is MUCH less stressful. My employer asked me to work part-time from home and even bought me a new computer and peripherals. But I come from a family of techno-addicts! They think I should answer every e-mail within an hour and wonder why I don't always answer my cell. He also insinuates that I have it "too good" being at home so much and that I am lazy!

On a normal day, I spend more hours working than I do at a regular office.

― ReRecorded, ReMastered (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 5 August 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

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