Comments on: I Need An Office

By: eric shoemaker

eric shoemaker — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:44:45 +0000

I remember this well. I was freelancing from our house for a long time and I almost went crazy. I think some people can do it, and some can not. There is something to be said about breaking the two apart; being in an studio, office or whatever. It’s just nice to leave for the day so you don’t feel the temptation to turn the laptop back on again. :-)

By: erikbianchi

erikbianchi — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:29:24 +0000

LOL I was going to blog about this myself but I think I’ve figured out a solution for me.

So first of all I drive 80 miles 1 way from my house to my office and I’ve been doing this for the past year so I am utterly sick of it! I

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:41:20 +0000

Well, I can’t say ‘I know what you mean’ because I love working at home and I don’t have a tv or gamebox in my bedroom.

But, you say you want an office, so you probably do… so here are some ideas:

–one of my collegues has a guest house (which I’ve never seen) but it sounds like a one room house outside his house. I’m not sure what your housing set up is like, but something like this might work well.

–be careful not to spend money. Someone gave me this advice a long time ago. The thing is, there are tons of opportunities to spend money… it doesn’t mean you should. When there’s an investment that makes sense then by all means, do it.

Good luck… it’s either going to work out for the better or the worse but you’ll never know until you try!

By: Ferris

Ferris — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:20:11 +0000

I hear ya entirely, Jesse. I’ve been doing the work-from-home here in ATL for the better part of a year and toy with the idea of getting out-and-about about once a week.

I totally agree w/Matt above about getting out of the house; a break in the monotony is vital.

My boss (small CT-based company) is wanting to get an office. With me being the only one out of state such a development worries me a bit, but I’ll burn that bridge when I cross it.

By: Yakov Fain

Yakov Fain — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:58:01 +0000

Jesse,

I hear you, but the problem is not with the geographical location of your office (50 miles or 50 feet commute), but with a discipline. If you’d be commuting every day, you’d leave your home at 7AM ad would be back home not later than 7PM. Set up the same rule for your home office: you can’t stay there after 7PM. Period. Not even checking emails. Her majesty will love this solution.

To make it even more official, buy yourself 5 white shirts and ties and dress up every morning when you enter your home office (pants are optional).
At 7PM take off this freaking tie and call it a day :)

All the best!