I know many people who can work as you and we all adjust to our setting. I just also know people who gravitate to their distractions and need the wall to define work. It's best for me even though I will work as effectively at midnight as in the middle of the day.
I have to say I am impressed. Working with a 4 year old and 2 month old around. Wow. On Monday, December 05, 2011 10:40:04 AM Jan Schaumann wrote: > > For whatever it's worth: > > I have been working from home for the last 3.5 years. I live in > Manhattan in a one-bedroom with a 4 year and now a 2 months old > daughter, meaning I work on my laptop in the middle of the livingroom > with all my life around me. > > I context-switch a lot; I put down the laptop to read my daughters a > story or play for a few minutes, I go shopping, cook etc. But: when I > go to visit the office (about once a quarter or so), I wonder how on > earth my colleagues get any work done. They are constantly interrupted, > asked to have coffee, lunch, breakfast, a snack, go for a walk and just > chew the fat. > > Yes, I work a lot at night and on the weekends. That is the one thing > that people who do not work from home are not aware of: you have no more > distinction between "home" and "office", which usually means that when > I'm home, I'm working. > > I could see how having a "home office" with a closed door could create > this impression of "going to the office" and "coming home", but I don't > find it either desirable nor (in Manhattan) practical. > > -Jan -- David Radcliffe Network Engineer/Linux Specialist da...@davidradcliffe.org www.davidradcliffe.org Nothing ever gets solved better with panic. If you do not know the answer, it is probably "42."
