How many of you work in your own office?

Guys, I am working in office as a senior engineer, please let me know If anyone has any work from home oppertunities.

 

I would love an office again but rent in this city is just way too high.
It is slightly insane.

 

I have worked from home for about 18 months now. It was boring and mind numbing at first but I have networked with some people and have several offline clients now so my week is a mixture of in the office, in clients offices or at the coffee shop!

 

So can you share why you should buy an office soon?

 

office is the best place to make people believe that we're working....

 

I've worked from home (living room), home office (separate room with the door closed) and informal office (separate building, same property as home) formal office (separate building miles away from home) and found I can be as effective in each, depending on the situation.

Generally speaking, the living room has a lot of distractions, so if you don't multi-task easily, or can't ignore the distractions you will not get much done. Personally, without kids, the only major distraction is the wife, and after all these years, she understands my "work mode" and can tell when I'm working and when I'm screwing around.

Most people will do better with at least a formal office, but I've personally found I can be effective in each, for different reasons. There are times I can do better with the relative solitude of an office away from the house, but times when the solitude leads to lower output due to lack of inspiration. Depending on how you work and whether you can effectively concentrate on the task at hand, your situation will be different. I've had employees that couldn't seem to cope with anything if there was a radio within earshot, and others that were near worthless unless there was some sort of background music or noise. Everyone is an individual and until you try it you can't really know what will work for you.

Years ago, I was amazed at the "absolute quiet" that many programmers seemed to require, while hardware engieers typically worked in noisier environments or in labs that had so many fans or machines going it sounded like a jet plane getting ready to take off. I found it was really more an individual thing (I was working as an electrical/hardware engineer at the time, though started my career as a software engineer, so couldn't figure out why so many of the current crop of software engineers had to be coddled). As it turned out, it was more a socialization thing than anything else. The next startup I worked in was like working in a hurrucane, and everyone got plenty done. Go figure...

People that require socialization will likely do better in an office environment with other like people around, while those that are more independent will likely do as well at a home office, if they don't have too many distractions. Nobody with little kids seems to do well at home because everyone expects you to be availabe all the time for the most minor things, so it is difficult to concentrate on a task, unless you can continue your thought processes through the tribulatons of dealing with the kids and pick back up when things settle down. Of course, if you can close the door on a home office and don't need to baby-sit, then you may be able to be as effective as in a remote office.

 

I found that the problem with working from home is that
family and friends felt as if I had nothing but free time on
my hands.

I had to put my foot down.

I have a scheduled time to work and I stick to it.
No matter what anyone else has to do or feel as
if I should be doing for them.

When I first started working from home I could barely
get anything done because of this.

So, I cut all that foolishness out. I realized that I was
ALLOWING them to stop me from making the kind of money
I wanted.

I wouldn't give up my home office - and I learned how
to get rid of the distractions. Just Say NO!

 

Well I have a taylor made office in my living room, don't know if that counts

 

Ya..I myself working in my own office..not big..with a 6 employees.trying to make money big time ofcourse

 

I split my time between an office and home. But when I work at home I make my home environment a work environment.

 

work at home ,you should make some rules.

 

Interesting topic,I think working from home gives oneself lot of flexibility.I always like to work from home,whenever I get bored I like to shift my work place just for a day or two and come back to home sweet home