Wednesday Apr 24, 2013

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So I have worked out a few things:

The pros of working from home:
- my commute is literally seconds
- it doesn't matter how I dress/if I've washed my hair
- I can drink ALL the tea
- I actually go out for a run in the evening, or do some sort of exercise in the time I would normally commute home

The cons of working from home:
- Sometimes I don't feel like I exist anywhere but on the internet
- I realise how paranoid I am when I start thinking my work is watching me through my computer
- I realise just how much housework there is
- I miss having work friends
- I eat WAY more because the food is just there, as opposed to in a shop

New job is going ok I think. I still have no idea why they hired me or what I'm supposed to do but people tell me this is normal 2 weeks in....we shall see.confused
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mark_plus_beer:
I worked from home for a few weeks and i could just not get used to it. I did go to the gym more then i normally did though.
lagoonguy:
for almost over a year i worked from home - went into the office once in a blue moon but our team was divided across the world and no others in my team were in my actual office. So I said screw it i'm just gonna work from home.

After a month or so of working from home I'd have to go into the office just to get myself on track. It's easy to get distracted. We had a chat room set up where teammates could socialize and talk work stuff and that kept isolation taken care of somewhat. But I'm not sure what kind of work you do - I was in a large IT company (laid off July 2012 - trying to go 1 year without working - been travelling all over the place)

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