I worked from home for years until our first child came along. Now I've started renting office space and I am happy to have a natural separation between work and home. When I switch the computer off and go home, I switch off and relax.
I now realise that this separation is important for your long term health and relationships.
Yeah I'm working at home a lot right now and it's not everything I hoped it would be. There's the nagging feeling all the time that "I could be working on X right now, the computer is right over there..."
It helps to have a real home office, a place you use for work and nothing else, in a separate room if you have the space. It also helps to set "work hours" otherwise you feel sort of like you're always (at least potentially) at work.
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I worked from home for years until our first child came along. Now I've started renting office space and I am happy to have a natural separation between work and home. When I switch the computer off and go home, I switch off and relax.
I now realise that this separation is important for your long term health and relationships.
Yeah I'm working at home a lot right now and it's not everything I hoped it would be. There's the nagging feeling all the time that "I could be working on X right now, the computer is right over there..."
It helps to have a real home office, a place you use for work and nothing else, in a separate room if you have the space. It also helps to set "work hours" otherwise you feel sort of like you're always (at least potentially) at work.