Work at Home - Are you that certain type of person to be Successful?

Thinking about trying a work at home business? It's often been said that a person who works for someone else, the days are to long and the one who works for themselves, the day is way to short. This is absolutely the truth about working for yourself. It also takes tenacity and drive but most importantly, it takes discipline to continue to work at home everyday with the distractions of a comfortable home life always beckoning beyond the door of the office.

So you want to work at home? Are you absolutely sure? Do you have the resources, the endurance, the drive? In one respect, those of us who work at home are the persecuted victims of a harsh reality. But in another respect, the work at home life is the only one we will tolerate.

First, those of us who work at home are not freaks who are incapable of holding down a "real" job in the outside world (as one snotty executive once wrote on a writers’ bulletin board). The work we do in our homes is real; in fact, it is more real in that it requires trusting we can make an income that is not guaranteed in a paycheck on the first and fifteenth of every month. It also allows us work from home types the flexibility to actually get more done in less time because we have fewer things to worry about. Ever have a call from the family? Or how about the commute time?

Yes, we who work at home must contend with elements that are outside of the boundaries of the public workplace: the roommate who lives in the bedroom above our workspace jousts furniture, plays tribal music at great, shaking volumes, and slams doors as if angry ALL the time, at EVERYTHING.

The 20-something kid next door rarely works, so at home too much he shaves in the bathroom sink, clogging it weekly; he plays god awful disco-throwback music during your work hours, and turns it down only after you cry (turning it back up again so the bass beats a cacophonous to the diastolic and systolic of your industrious and focused heart, or deciding to take a shower in the bath next door, playing the music softly but singing passive-aggressively loudly and excruciatingly off key--as he bathes); and he slams doors, too, as he is related to the roommate upstairs.

Still we're home to deal with any family emergency if and when it occurs without having to take time from work, drive home, deal with the problem, return to work and begin anew. We fix the issue when it arises and go back into our office and continue working without skipping a beat!

Although the benefits of proximity can be both a blessing and a curse, the important thing to consider is you own personality. If you're able to get up every morning, go into your work at home office and start being productive, then welcome to the growing ranks of home entrepreneurs!

 

 

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