Working from home is driving me mental

[ThomasSoerensen]

If you rate is ultra good why dont you just hire a fit secretary/house cleaner/pipe cleaner for a few hundred £ a day?

prostitute

[PRC1964]

I worked from home for 4 years. It does take a bit of getting used to.

In the end I found other friends and neighbours who also worked from home and we'd arrange to go for pub lunches etc.

Expat,

Don't let yourself go. Never give up shaving just because you can.

I found that to be one of the true joys. No suits, no shaving. The best was being there while the kids were very little.

[DieScum]

I've done the lunch thing and it's alright but,.. och... it's a ll a bit of hassle. It's one thing thing to nip out to lunch with colleagues it's another to arrange the whole thing in advance.

Maybe I'll do it more...

[EternalOptimist]

I've done the lunch thing and it's alright but,.. och... it's a ll a bit of hassle. It's one thing thing to nip out to lunch with colleagues it's another to arrange the whole thing in advance.

Maybe I'll do it more...

Please let me be your special friend. I can pay

[bogeyman]

Had an office at home for over 15 years but moved away now, and working in a big office again.

Loved working at home but the social side of working in a big city/office environment is great too.

When I worked alone at home, I still socialised with people around the village where I lived, in the pub etc. and had family, so was never lonely.

Also, I could just wander around the place and have a chat or a cup of coffee with the neighbours or something

Seems a lot of homeworkers just don't (or can't) socialise with people in their normal environment, and therein lies the problem.

[Paddy]

just use one of the private online chat rooms, I have a good chat
with a bird from Norway the other day, she even ended up taking her
clothes off for me .

Link please!

[Cliphead]

I've been working at home for over 2 years now and I wouldn't change. Skype is open permanently talking to other developers, girlie etc. I break for lunch and meet up with the locals at the pub, plenty of interaction there.

The discipline isn't working too few hours but working too many, especially keeping US hours.

[bogeyman]

The discipline isn't working too few hours but working too many, especially keeping US hours.

True.

People think it's a doss but I have often, when wife and kids were not there, started work at 8am and only finished when I wandered out to the kitchen for another beer, and noticed the clock on the cooker said 02.30

Working at home can be bad if you have no interaction with other people. Otherwise it's sublime!

[scooterscot]

Join a spa - forget the office life and relax for a couple of hours in the bubbles.

Sometimes take the puter into the cafe and do some work amongst the chatty folks..

[Doggy Styles]

Working from home was great 10 years ago, but the only thing I like about it now is that it saves the commute hassle. I haven't done it for 18 months.