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Peaches · 01-12-2007, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by emjay

Good luck with that. Not sure after so much freedom if I could handle being in an environment for 8+ hours a day where if I pop out someone asks "where are you going?"

Oh, I know. It is NOT something I'm looking forward to, but it's a means to an end. It IS a job that can be done from home - I'll just have to serve some time first

Z · 01-12-2007, 10:52 AM

I've been working from home over 6 years now. I'd say that it's 85% heaven.

I commute in my underwear (if that) 10 ft. to my office, sit down and fire up the computers. The maid comes in and asks about breakfast, then brings cut fruit, a smoothie and whatever. I start cranking and she comes in about lunch 3 or 4 hours later. I take an hour break to watch TV while I eat lunch and then back at it until whenever.

It does suck not to get as much exercise as I'd like. But then again, I've got a gym downstairs and the sunshine is outside. So I get as much of both as I'd like and we can work whenever.

The lack of social interaction's a bitch. But my girlfriend works from home too, so I get some nookie whenever during the day and I get out and about pretty regularly, so even that is not too bad.

Ya...I stick with 85% heaven, 10% cool and 5% the hell of just not being in synch with most of the world.

bizarredollars · 01-12-2007, 10:56 AM

I do love working from home, the only downside is the distractions and temptations to put work off... I really do work better when working with others. (jan this is your job, keep pushing me woman!!).

yutenjiboy · 01-12-2007, 10:57 AM

Living here in Tokyo I can only dream of working from home. Sadly, I still early in the goings so I have a day job which sees me hauling my butt to and from on the hell trains in Tokyo every day.

I aspire to one day be able to leave the day job and focus 100% to building an online business! Dreams can come true I say.

hardcoreblogger · 01-12-2007, 11:04 AM

heaven for me so far, but i also need to go out and exercise more...

emjay · 01-12-2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by yutenjiboy

Living here in Tokyo I can only dream of working from home. Sadly, I still early in the goings so I have a day job which sees me hauling my butt to and from on the hell trains in Tokyo every day.

Commuting in Tokyo? My heart goes out to you...

yutenjiboy · 01-12-2007, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by emjay

Commuting in Tokyo? My heart goes out to you...

Yeah, mornings on the Denentoshi Line can be quite horrendous. It is referred to as the "hell train" here in Japan and known for being the most crowded of all lines. You know those pics you see online of train station workers cramming people into trains...that's the line you are most likely seeing.

Not so bad when you have a sweet hotty pressed up against you though.
"No, that's not a chopstick...I am very happy to see you."

emjay · 01-12-2007, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by yutenjiboy

Yeah, mornings on the Denentoshi Line can be quite horrendous. It is referred to as the "hell train" here in Japan and known for being the most crowded of all lines. You know those pics you see online of train station workers cramming people into trains...that's the line you are most likely seeing.

Thanks for dispelling any doubts I was having about working from home!

Barefootsies · 01-13-2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Adult Search Results

been working from home for the last 6 years and i think from being inside so much i've developed somewhat of a phobia for being out in public

I hear ya there. I think I have a touch of that society anxiety. I get it when I go to new places sometimes. Very odd. But I am just getting out more, and figure eventually it will go away.

Mr.Right - Banned For Life · 01-13-2007, 12:32 PM

Working from home was one of the best things i ever did.

I cant stand office's they make me feel sick lol.

CDSmith · 01-13-2007, 12:47 PM

100% home-based for going on 9 years here, have loved every minute of it. I get up when I'm done sleeping, not when someone else tells me I have to be up. No hour-long fight through heavy traffic just for the privilege of making someone else rich, no one telling me when I can grab a meal and when it's okay to take a breather outside, I make the rules in my workplace, not some pseudo-nazi taskmaster from hell who thinks he or she is... well you get the idea.

I interact directly with people as much or as little as I want. By phone, in person, whatever. What I don't have are any annoying idiots in my workplace to drive me crazy day in and day out, and after nearly 20 years of working various jobs, side-jobs, and many years as a health care worker at a large hospital I can say with the utmost certainty that every workplace out there with more than 3 or 4 people has at least one annoying idiot.

At my workplace *I* am the only annoying idiot, and I like it that way. :D

he-fox · 01-13-2007, 01:03 PM

heaven for me.

bopha · 01-13-2007, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies

I hear ya there. I think I have a touch of that society anxiety. I get it when I go to new places sometimes. Very odd. But I am just getting out more, and figure eventually it will go away.

Wow.. I totally forgot about that. I got that so bad several years ago. I started having panic attacks in the grocery store. I had to start having my groceries delivered.

They will probably give that an official name for telecommuters phobias.

Exercise and natural light totally helps.

nico-t · 01-13-2007, 01:14 PM

it has upsides and one downside for me: its pretty much social isolation.
I really started to value my weekends of going out since it's pretty much the only time u can meet new chicks... i live for the weekends, it's like a weekly fix!
And let this be the weekend that eveyone i know has other shit to do... i think this must be the first time in years i aint going anywhere on a sat. night... I need prozac.

King Adam · 01-13-2007, 01:15 PM

I think its a little bit of both. I work from home and as long as I don't have family and/or friends poppin by while I'm trying to get my shit done, I love working from home.

But its also a lot easier to get distracted from what you are doing when working at home.

bareskin · 01-13-2007, 01:37 PM

Working from home rocks wouldn't change that for anything, when I want to commute I call my girlfriend up ask her to lunch, she works 45 minutes away, then I sit in LA traffic get road rage all the way up there almost say fuck it turn around halfway through but continue forward and realize that that shits for the birds and am gald that I work from home when a lunch date takes 3-4 hours due to traffic ( thats including the lunch hour)

Peaches · 01-13-2007, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

I get up when I'm done sleeping, not when someone else tells me I have to be up.

LOL, I'm with you on everything but this - I have a "4 pug alarm clock". I am not allowed to sleep past 8AM. But I CAN feed them, try and prevent the "I'm finished with my food, now it's time for me to eat yours" fights, let them out, back in, then curl up and go BACK to sleep.

Though with the puppy, I usually wake up to him tearing apart SOMETHING I've managed to not keep out of his way. This AM, it was a stack of Postits. Oy.

tranza · 01-13-2007, 01:45 PM

I rather work from my office then from home...

chaze · 01-13-2007, 01:52 PM

nice thread...

I mostly work from home and have learned a couple things..

First I had to get a nice house with a enclosed room for the office..

Second I have to go out into a social environment at least every other day.

This seems to keep things on the up and up.. Definably the downside is not being around peers throughout the day.

Peaches · 01-13-2007, 02:00 PM

I also love that I can take the laptop and go sit outside in my jammies and work. Corporations tend to frown on that

Vitasoy · 01-13-2007, 06:33 PM

Heaven for the most part.. I love the fact I can wake up anytime I want and work at anytime I feel like.

The Sultan Of Smut · 01-14-2007, 02:50 AM

I miss the some of the perks I had from corporate life (i.e. the season tickets) but I can't go back to my cubicle, it was beside the senior accountants

E$_manager · 01-14-2007, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by tony404

Now the work never stops, there is just breaks basically. Also I couldnt imagine doing this single, making friends sitting at home is very hard.

Golden words. Only breaks...

danevans · 01-14-2007, 09:46 AM

Working from home (rented appt) for a couple of years now, should be getting my own place by June, but I will probably keep this one as an office and get one or two employees for grunt work. The way see it - ideal thing for our type of a job would be to open up something downtown (cafe/bar, carwash, whatever, that brings in a small steady income and keeps you busy a bit everyday so you don't go nuts..)
btw as I was reading this thread I see that a good part of us could fit in that Tom Hanks' part (can't remember the title of the movie) when he's stuck alone on an island with his volleyball buddy Wilson lol

emjay · 01-19-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Sultan Of Smut

I miss the some of the perks I had from corporate life (i.e. the season tickets) but I can't go back to my cubicle, it was beside the senior accountants

No turning back!

emjay · 04-09-2007, 01:26 PM

I have noticed that hardly any vacation rentals in Europe include wifi as part of the mix.

My hunch is that many of us homeworkers would sometimes like to work somewhere else for a change.

To this end, here's a little side project aimed at us web-workers

LUXURY VILLA WITH WIRELESS INTERNET FOR RENT

01-12-2007, 10:56 AM	#53
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	I do love working from home, the only downside is the distractions and temptations to put work off... I really do work better when working with others. (jan this is your job, keep pushing me woman!!). __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

01-12-2007, 10:57 AM	#54
yutenjiboy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 231	Living here in Tokyo I can only dream of working from home. Sadly, I still early in the goings so I have a day job which sees me hauling my butt to and from on the hell trains in Tokyo every day. I aspire to one day be able to leave the day job and focus 100% to building an online business! Dreams can come true I say. __________________ DOMAIN FOR SALE - SKINTUBE.COM email: webmaster//at//skintube//com

01-12-2007, 11:04 AM	#55
hardcoreblogger Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Where the wild things are Posts: 761	heaven for me so far, but i also need to go out and exercise more... __________________

01-13-2007, 12:47 PM	#61
CDSmith Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Location: My network is hosted at TECHIEMEDIA.net ...Wait, you meant where am I located at? Oh... okay, I'm in Winnipeg, Canada. Oops. :) Posts: 51,460	100% home-based for going on 9 years here, have loved every minute of it. I get up when I'm done sleeping, not when someone else tells me I have to be up. No hour-long fight through heavy traffic just for the privilege of making someone else rich, no one telling me when I can grab a meal and when it's okay to take a breather outside, I make the rules in my workplace, not some pseudo-nazi taskmaster from hell who thinks he or she is... well you get the idea. I interact directly with people as much or as little as I want. By phone, in person, whatever. What I don't have are any annoying idiots in my workplace to drive me crazy day in and day out, and after nearly 20 years of working various jobs, side-jobs, and many years as a health care worker at a large hospital I can say with the utmost certainty that every workplace out there with more than 3 or 4 people has at least one annoying idiot. At my workplace I am the only annoying idiot, and I like it that way. :D __________________ *Promote Wildmatch, ImLive, Sexier.com, and more!!* ALWAYS THE HIGHEST PAYOUTS: Big Bux/ImLive SIGNUP ON NOW!!! Put some PUSSYCA$H in your pocket. ICQ me at: 31024634

01-13-2007, 01:15 PM	#65
King Adam Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Valley of the Sun Posts: 5,408	I think its a little bit of both. I work from home and as long as I don't have family and/or friends poppin by while I'm trying to get my shit done, I love working from home. But its also a lot easier to get distracted from what you are doing when working at home. __________________ TWISTYSCASH.com - Proven to be One of the BEST Adult Programs Around Promote These Sites : Twistys ~ Busty Ones ~ Nicole Graves ICQ : 9 6 4 4 0 2 2 1

01-12-2007, 10:52 AM	#52
Z Vidi Vici Veni Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 6,308	I've been working from home over 6 years now. I'd say that it's 85% heaven. I commute in my underwear (if that) 10 ft. to my office, sit down and fire up the computers. The maid comes in and asks about breakfast, then brings cut fruit, a smoothie and whatever. I start cranking and she comes in about lunch 3 or 4 hours later. I take an hour break to watch TV while I eat lunch and then back at it until whenever. It does suck not to get as much exercise as I'd like. But then again, I've got a gym downstairs and the sunshine is outside. So I get as much of both as I'd like and we can work whenever. The lack of social interaction's a bitch. But my girlfriend works from home too, so I get some nookie whenever during the day and I get out and about pretty regularly, so even that is not too bad. Ya...I stick with 85% heaven, 10% cool and 5% the hell of just not being in synch with most of the world.

01-13-2007, 12:32 PM	#60
Mr.Right - Banned For Life I guarantee it Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 18,314	Working from home was one of the best things i ever did. I cant stand office's they make me feel sick lol.

01-13-2007, 01:03 PM	#62
he-fox Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Playa del Carmen, Mexico Posts: 2,884	heaven for me.

01-13-2007, 01:14 PM	#64
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	it has upsides and one downside for me: its pretty much social isolation. I really started to value my weekends of going out since it's pretty much the only time u can meet new chicks... i live for the weekends, it's like a weekly fix! And let this be the weekend that eveyone i know has other shit to do... i think this must be the first time in years i aint going anywhere on a sat. night... I need prozac.

01-13-2007, 01:37 PM	#66
bareskin Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Pimpin in socal Posts: 619	Working from home rocks wouldn't change that for anything, when I want to commute I call my girlfriend up ask her to lunch, she works 45 minutes away, then I sit in LA traffic get road rage all the way up there almost say fuck it turn around halfway through but continue forward and realize that that shits for the birds and am gald that I work from home when a lunch date takes 3-4 hours due to traffic ( thats including the lunch hour) __________________ Globat.com hosting company has shitty customer service skills :: please be advised:: Icq# 394599740

01-13-2007, 01:45 PM	#68
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01-13-2007, 01:52 PM	#69
chaze Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 9,752	nice thread... I mostly work from home and have learned a couple things.. First I had to get a nice house with a enclosed room for the office.. Second I have to go out into a social environment at least every other day. This seems to keep things on the up and up.. Definably the downside is not being around peers throughout the day.

01-13-2007, 02:00 PM	#70
Peaches Old broad Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Away Posts: 13,933	I also love that I can take the laptop and go sit outside in my jammies and work. Corporations tend to frown on that

01-13-2007, 06:33 PM	#71
Vitasoy GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!! Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 58,202	Heaven for the most part.. I love the fact I can wake up anytime I want and work at anytime I feel like. __________________ [email protected]

01-14-2007, 02:50 AM	#72
The Sultan Of Smut Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 4,325	I miss the some of the perks I had from corporate life (i.e. the season tickets) but I can't go back to my cubicle, it was beside the senior accountants

01-14-2007, 09:46 AM	#74
danevans Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Europe Posts: 1,295	Working from home (rented appt) for a couple of years now, should be getting my own place by June, but I will probably keep this one as an office and get one or two employees for grunt work. The way see it - ideal thing for our type of a job would be to open up something downtown (cafe/bar, carwash, whatever, that brings in a small steady income and keeps you busy a bit everyday so you don't go nuts..) btw as I was reading this thread I see that a good part of us could fit in that Tom Hanks' part (can't remember the title of the movie) when he's stuck alone on an island with his volleyball buddy Wilson lol __________________ Custom adult games / apps for your paysites. webmaster at multimoodia.net icq35291012

04-09-2007, 01:26 PM	#76
emjay Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Back in Blighty Posts: 4,277	I have noticed that hardly any vacation rentals in Europe include wifi as part of the mix. My hunch is that many of us homeworkers would sometimes like to work somewhere else for a change. To this end, here's a little side project aimed at us web-workers LUXURY VILLA WITH WIRELESS INTERNET FOR RENT