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Changing Offices
This was my office since we moved to this house. I bought the desk in Phoenix online and had it shipped here. We also did that with area rugs because just about every room in this house has hardwood floors.
And this is temporarily my new office, in the basement. And I think I made a good move. Let me tell you why.
The desk in the first picture is in our dining room which is basically one huge room which includes the living room. It look’s nice, but there was not much I could get done.
I have a 3 year old and a 8 year old. There was really no way for me to get work done at the upstairs desk unless they were asleep. Two reasons:
- They didn’t understand that I was working.
- I have to get involved in everything in my vicinity.
To tell you the truth, with the laptop, I haven’t worked at any desk except the one at my day job for a while. And for a few weeks, I was driving down there to get some work done on the weekends when no one was there, an hour round trip. And in my mind an hour wasted.
Now I am down here with the spiders, with only one thing to focus on. No books on the bookshelves to distract me. Nothing really to look at. And this is good. Now I just have to make sure that I don’t take off on a tangent with internet ADHD. It comes down to the ability to focus on what I am doing for long enough to actually accomplish something.
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Looks just like my work area. My girls are 10 and 5, and it drives them crazy when I disappear down into the hole. Only one thing I would change, take that FOCUS sign that was pasted on your computer desk shelf upstairs and paste it on the wall of your basement.
That is probably one of the biggest problems with working from home. Friends and family seem to think that because you are at home you can’t really be working. They don’t always see it as a real job.
@kmcgra I may just do that.
@Paula My family understands. I just had to get serious enough to remove myself from them to get work done.
Even i worked as a freelancer and worked from home some times we don’t take it serious because we work from home and finally we give up.
I guess I’m not along and can so relate to the office space / work /life / family juggle –seems always something seems to give but having a dedicated place to work from is helpful!
I tried the whole home office thing. but living in the windy city I saw an opportunity for a shared office and i jumped on it