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Comment on Working from Home: Why It Sucks by Me_Princess

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

Hey,

Love u for writing this. WFH definitely sucks

Comment on Working from Home: Why It 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.

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Comment on Working from Home: Why It Sucks by Residual Incomes

Residual Incomes — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:02:12 +0000

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Comment on Working from Home: Why It Sucks 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.

Comment on “Practical Ruby Projects”: a fascinating guide for the curious hacker by Oval

Oval — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:12:12 +0000

I guess that’s how we all started using our parent’s computer: Curiosity. Try and error.

Comment on Working from Home Part 2: Why It’s Great by Oval

Oval — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:10:44 +0000

Now I just noticed that you have also written about the good sides of work from home after I have commented already on the bad sides. I guess it is mostly about what kind of personality you are wether this is good for you.

Comment on Working from Home: Why It Sucks 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.

Comment on Discovering the Link Between Effort and Reward by Oval

Oval — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:02:13 +0000

If you manage to make a decent living as a freelancer, the satisfaction that comes from it is much greater. Seems to be something inherent to human nature. The less you understand the overall process in which you are involved as a little function, the more it will alienate you over time.

Comment on You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by Oval

Oval — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:59:49 +0000

Engineers build products for engineers. So true. Now maybe some of you know music made by musicians for musicians. Who wants to hear that? Exactly.