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Although all comfy, warm, and snugly, I find working from home much harder work. At least when I was a contractor and billing for time.
When working at the location (by their request), I billed form my time at the location. When home, stopping form anything but reasonable and brief intervals was not billed. Ultimately, I found a six-hour day at home more difficult than nine on the road.
So - for now, I save work-from-home for very nasty weather. Good fortune has given me an option of two work sites between which I alternate - one quite local. Face time is also important. If the transport is down or something to that effect, I can simply go to the local site.
Main warning, however, is that it's easy to put on weight when the kitchen's at hand.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Main warning, however, is that it's easy to put on weight when the kitchen's at hand. Bingo.
Elsewhere, I mentioned that this is a health hazard.
You nailed it.
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When I began working at home (to care for an infant) I discovered that I became twice as productive (measured in lines of code) as any of my colleagues. (To be fair, a newborn sleeps 20 hours a day. The baby was not in fact much of a distraction).
Here are some suggestions.
- The commute is not working time. Stop beating yourself up if you are only as productive at home as you are at work because you use your commute time for sleeping/spouse/kids.
- Your family has to "get it" that you are not available when working at home just like you would not be available when you were at work. You have to train your cute four-year-old that you are busy at work, and you can't read to him or play in the mud with him. Same thing with your spouse's request that you go to the grocery store or whatever. If you can't do this, or your family cannot be trained, then you can't work at home.
- Email is not your friend. Neither is the internet. As distracting as these things are at work, they are ten times worse at home. You must resolutely close down your mailer so you don't get interrupted. Launch the mailer a couple of times a day if needed to see if you get anything important, but pick a time-of-day and even more important a duration for reading all those blog extracts, thought-provoking long articles, etc. Turn off notifications on your phone, too. You must ritually burn yourself with a lighter for even THINKING about Netflix when you are working at home.
- Track your time. When did you sit down? When did you get up? Did you watch any Game of Thrones? Make sure it totals 8 hours or more. If you can't get in 8 hours, don't tell yourself you are more productive at home so it's ok. The deal is you spend 8 hours a day at work, so you spend 8 hours a day working at home. If you are more productive at home, your boss will be happy that you choose to work at home. However, you don't have to spend the same hours. You can work 7-3, or 8-noon and 8-midnight, or 10-3 and 8-11PM. The flexibility to schedule your 8 hours is actually one of the secrets to being a productive worker and also productive as a family member. A second secret is working your commute time so that you get in 10 hours of work instead of 8 hours of work and an hour of commuting each way. This makes you automatically 2 hours more productive when you work at home.
- Take breaks. Get up at least once an hour, go to the bathroom. Go to the kitchen if you're hungry and nibble something crunchy. Take the 5 minutes. It's ok. You do it at work too. You just don't notice. You get up and go over to Bob's cubicle to shoot the sh*t/talk about refactoring. You go to a 10AM standup, get coffee or nuts from the break room, etc.
- Music. The joy of music without headphones. The joy of thrash rock or Country or Broadway show tunes your colleagues would tease you about. The joy of streaming music without the corporate IT guy shouting down your neck about wasting bandwidth. But you need non-distracting music, or even ambient sound. Youtube has these 8-hour tracks of birds chirping and rain falling that will keep your ears from ringing in the silence without distracting you. There's a company called focus@will (focusatwill.com) that will stream you classical music or rain sounds (it costs bucks-a-month though).
- Comfy chair, check. Comfy temperature in the home office, check. Get comfortable. Being uncomfortable is a distraction.
- Oh, comfortable may mean dressed up in your work clothes to remind you you're at work. Jammies remind you that you're sleepy, so don't let this be a distraction. Office in your bedroom reminds you you're sleepy, so this is also not necessarily a good choice.
Without the distraction of meetings, yakking about the Seahawks, email, etc., you will automatically be significantly more productive.
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On Friday Dave Grohl fell off the stage during the second song and broke his leg, got his leg bandaged and returns to the stage singing sitting on a chair, while a doctor fixates his leg, on stage!
He doesn't leave for the hospital until the concert is over.
I wonder what he was on?
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Sounds like his manager is used to managing developers.
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Same thought crossed my mind,
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I wonder what he was on?
Fire? Rock? Many rockers have accidents on stage and keep performing unless it is totally debilitating (as Kirk Hammet when a misfired firework hit him squarely on the hands).
If you're really into the rock you can suffer a lot more damage before having to stop, I've been to concerts where the mosh pit was barely legal and my girlfriend is at least 10 times more resilient than me on that regard
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: while a doctor fixates his leg
For a doctor, he sounds rather useless.
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Maybe it's my translation. Perhaps 'splint' is a better translation?
I don't think doctors that just happens to be there, also just happens to have an x-ray machine and plaster in the back pocket.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Maybe it's my translation. Perhaps 'splint' is a better translation?
I knew exactly what you were trying to say. The doctor fixed his leg--being fixated with something means you're just looking at it (and not doing much about it).
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To me fixed always meant that it got fixed as in repaired.
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That's right, but "fixed" != "fixated". That's all I was trying to point out (and yanking your chain the process).
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That is how desperate people are to get out of France!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I don't know how the French Police can let this happen. They are illegal immigrants. They should be arrested and returned to their country of origin, and until they admit where that is, they should be held indeterminately.
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"I don't know how the French Police can let this happen."
Really? The police have been told to not enforce the law - just like over here.
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To be cynical realistic for a moment, what do the French gain from stopping them leaving France? If they have the manpower (and that's a big if) to mount any real challenge it will obviously be directed to stopping people getting in!
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Happy Birthday for yesterday!
BBC coverage [^]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 14-Jun-15 17:27pm.
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And our Prince apparently got married. :yawn:
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To a topless model. At least that is a little bit interesting, no?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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But it won't be the official dress will it?
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Pity.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service over the weekend, I like the look of the Swedish monarchy.
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Just been to see Jurassic World with my partner and youngest daughter. We all thoroughly enjoyed it, a great film. I've always loved the Jurassic Park films and was really looking forward to the latest installment. We certainly weren't disappointed
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We have a T-Rex!
I just returned from the flying field and have had both the small and the larger T-Rex in the air.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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