Working at home can drive you crazy, but it's a fun ride
Working at home is filled with both good points and problem points. One of the problems that is very hard to evade is the interruptions. Rather it is kids traipsing through the house and needing attention for a few minutes or the television in the other room being just loud enough to provide distractions or the age old bane of sleepers the dripping faucet (which we thankfully don't have - them things drive me insane), there is something at every home to distract from working.
How do you reduce, or better yet eradicate these distractions? I don't know. I wish I could tell you there was a magic wand that could be waved and make it all leave you alone from 9 to 5, but there's not. The best you can do, or at least the best that I can do, is to deal with distractions in a speedy and efficient manner and get right back to what I was up to before the distraction hit. There is just no easy way to deal with all of the distractions that will strike throughout the day when you are working at home.
But then, some of those distractions are why we work at home. Huh? Being able to be distracted by a kid rushing in with cold cheeks and breathless to ask you to come out and see what they have been up to in the yard. Watching out a window as the kids tromp through the snowy woods with Airsoft guns and BB guns over their shoulders hunting those evil aluminum cans that run wild in the Alaskan wilderness.
Yes, working at home has its share of distractions. But at the end of the week, as you kick back and talk to the folks at the bar-b-cue about all the interruptions you have vs the ones they have. Isn't the distractions that work at home moms, dad, and aunts and uncles face better than the ones that the men and women in regular jobs encounter?
I don't know about you, but I would rather clean up a spilled soda in the kitchen than a broken pickle jar on aisle 12. Or wash the arms of the little girl that had to test the perfume in the bathroom than clean up after little 'testers' in the makeup department.
How do you reduce, or better yet eradicate these distractions? I don't know. I wish I could tell you there was a magic wand that could be waved and make it all leave you alone from 9 to 5, but there's not. The best you can do, or at least the best that I can do, is to deal with distractions in a speedy and efficient manner and get right back to what I was up to before the distraction hit. There is just no easy way to deal with all of the distractions that will strike throughout the day when you are working at home.
But then, some of those distractions are why we work at home. Huh? Being able to be distracted by a kid rushing in with cold cheeks and breathless to ask you to come out and see what they have been up to in the yard. Watching out a window as the kids tromp through the snowy woods with Airsoft guns and BB guns over their shoulders hunting those evil aluminum cans that run wild in the Alaskan wilderness.
Yes, working at home has its share of distractions. But at the end of the week, as you kick back and talk to the folks at the bar-b-cue about all the interruptions you have vs the ones they have. Isn't the distractions that work at home moms, dad, and aunts and uncles face better than the ones that the men and women in regular jobs encounter?
I don't know about you, but I would rather clean up a spilled soda in the kitchen than a broken pickle jar on aisle 12. Or wash the arms of the little girl that had to test the perfume in the bathroom than clean up after little 'testers' in the makeup department.
posted by Sandra at 3:26 PM
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