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by ryandrake
4054 days ago
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I can't work productively from home: 1. Young children don't understand daddy having to separate work time from home time 2. Wife that doesn't get that just because I'm in the house, it doesn't mean I can babysit or help with household chores 3. Crazy dog barking every time a car passes outside the front door 4. Lack of a dedicated space (in an already small Bay Area living space) for doing work 5. Commuting is my way to mentally get myself in and out of work mode, driving around the block doesn't cut it 6. Lack of regular, daily human interaction (even if it's just co-workers) is depressing after a day or so 7. My typical work role has me having to hunt people down who don't respond to E-mail/text/etc.. can't effectively do that from home |
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2. Wife also is a full time WFH, ironically we exchange very little dialog other then around lunch time during the day. I'm lucky that she "Gets it" in my case.
3. no pets,
4. we have no dedicated office, in fact my desk is in the living room, and hers is in the bedroom. We relish our frugality though and every time we are about to complain, we look at how much a 2 or 3 bedroom apt costs!
5. I'm impressed this does the trick for you. Driving / commuting just gets me all riled up, I cant stand how they let other people on the road!
6. This was SOO hard during my first year. I was definitely thrown into a slump shortly after I made the switch. I now have a regularly occurring social event 4 days a week that gets me around other people which helps me stay social.
7. Since all my co-workers are also work from home, Email, Phone or gchat usually extracts a reply immediately, even if its "On phone, will get back to you in 1 hour"