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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:32:57 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:20:54 +0000

Ive been working from home for 13 years, and it is a lonely existanse. It is like never leaving the office because I have graphic designers in India, customers in the USA and Europe, and have to cover all time zones myself as it is a one man show that couldn’t work in any other environment. At 53 years old there are no jobs out there, and I can tell you from 13 years that the pay is definatley not worth it. My live in girlfriend lives for a few hours that can be spared. Sounds like a joke, but it’s the truth. So for those of you out there that think they can go shopping, take it easy have a lot of breaks and make money forget that idea. Basically for me the average time off is a 1 hour workout at the gym for an hour at 5AM.
I think prisiners get more time out than that.

By: Me_Princess

Me_Princess — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:42:52 +0000

Hey,

Love u for writing this. WFH definitely sucks

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:13:44 +0000

Working from home has given me hemmorhoids. Wiping myself has become a major task every day so I am glad for the extra private time so I can crap and wipe with the bathroom door open. For a break, I moved my desk to the roof and worked there for a few days. Eventually the snow and ice and cold caused my huge desk to slide into the front yard right on top of the old lady that likes to peer into my window when I get naked…the old bag. This is my schedule: get up, lay in bed all day and work from wireless laptop, eat, watch Family Guy, get naked for the old lady, stay up to 4a, go to sleep, and start all over again. I’ve been alone so long even the old biddy voyeur is starting to cause my wood to stiffen up. Maybe I’ll pound her one of these days…she’d like that…; gotta go…it’s 1030a and The Waltons are on so I gotta get back to being unmotivated and doing nothing…oooopp, here comes that old lady…and she has a spanking paddle with her…whoops.

By: man

man — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:41:16 +0000

This is really eye opening and true. Left my part time job a few years ago and took on freelance writing from home while I went to grad school. But as the classes wound down and I was left with just a twice weekly internship the “fun” of all this freedom and being alone got kind of old. Sure I live with an SO and roommates but most day time they aren’t usually around; at first I went out biking and went to a coffee shop to do work but then that cut back and I was here in front of the computer.

In past 2-3 months it really started getting me down, I’m trying to expand my work at my internship to have places to go more, I’m done my grad work for at least 8 months and now it’s just me and the computer most days. I started becoming more irritated as freelance writing changes wore on me and the work day suddenly became whenever I felt like it often to the disappointment of friends and family. Then I felt like they were bothering me when can’t they see I have work to do.

Its refreshing to hear that work from home isn’t always for everyone and that getting lonely and depressed is a byproduct. I consider myself super independent but became so dependent on just contact with anyone including my SO it became a drain on both of us. I even felt like I was becoming more socially awkward from not being exposed to daily contact in classes, work, and outside.

I’m thinking of leaving the freelance work from home world, or at least getting a real job outside. It started as something on the side in between part time jobs and classes and quickly became everything that stresses me.

People think it’s great. It’s great if your work at home job integrates with you going somewhere (like a realtor showing homes or going on tour) but if its your whole daily existence it becomes a grind.

By: Oval

Oval — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:07:31 +0000

Nice Post, describes well what I have gone through while doing call center operations from home. They were trying to build up a “call centre without a center”, means we were all only working in a cloud with our phone and some software to acess all necessary data over the web.
It took a lot of discipline to do this. Sure, you can cut your toenails while working, but you are more easily distracted.
You get used to it, though, and actually I know some people who prefer this kind of work. I don’t.