upgrading

Working from home sounds like a great idea for many people, I’m lucky to be able to work from home on my first full time job. I set my working time , i spend a lot of time with my family and i can do many things typical office bound people can’t. Sounds great right ?

Right , till you realised , setting of your working time is really plain nonsense. You’re still conform to everyone’s working time. The only benefit is that you can do your stuff in whichever outfit you desire and there’s no need to commute which saves you time or gives you more time to sleep in.

Communication is important in any work setting and it is even more important when you work from home. There’s no one that can really help in a short notice because it takes time for people to reply to email/sms/calls. So you’re on your own most of the time. Yes it does get lonely working at home sometimes , lonely in a sense you don’t get to do those chit-chat around the coffee machine or take an hour lunch break with friends you made in the office but that is just a small issue.

Procrastination/distraction. Because you don’t “report” to work , you tend to sway away from work more often than you’ll do in a office. I get distracted easily , i can be focusing on work for 25mins and after that i could be going out to get something or coffee , next thing i know 2 hours passed and i haven’t got much done which will snowball up and kill me the next day. I also procrastinate excessively too. I’ll put my work aside , go online to look for stuff that aren’t really work-related and only later i blame myself for not doing the darn work.

Lastly , you dont have a knock off time. You might just do overtime like no body business or you don’t even do anything at all.

End of the day , working from home is hard work in its own way. So does going to an office or a work site. Nothing is simple , if things are so simple , we wouldn’t even be working to get money wouldn’t it ?.