refiner:
too long...can someone plz summarise for me...m such a lazy reader....

refiner:
too long...can someone plz summarise for me...m such a lazy reader....

vascable:


not really a personal blog, buh more like a freelancer.. this one s just my personal blog were is hare my thoughts and experiences ,,,

kay29000:
OP you said you have been blogging for 6 months, and then at another place in your write-up, you said you have been blogging for three years.


Anyway, I can totally relate with your write-up. I have been blogging for 7 years now, and working from home hasn't been easy. The burnouts after working long hours continuously for days...the zero social life and lack of a girlfriend...family members begging you to go and get a regular job cos they don't understand what you are doing...Having to fuel your gen regularly cos Nepa life is not reliable...sometimes running out of money cos you poured all you make back into your blog...I can go on and on, but I want to take time out and watch a romance movie on DSTV...Nepa just brought light.

vascable:


yea so true.. d 3yrs part s an error (sorry)

Toks2008:
One thing i hate about working from home is that it gives me too much time to always read threads on nairaland and perhaps create some.

I am an e-commerce consultant in the area of money market and i attend to clients online from morning till 5pm which can be very frustrating because one hardly goes out to have good time except when i go out for political meetings and the only place i mostly interact is online and through phone calls or watsup messages.

Another unfortunate thing is the mindset of Nigerians and people living around you will see you as jobless and even some myopic people online because they believe that you must be "busy all through" from 8 to 5 forgetting that not all jobs engage you 100% and worse stil people usually believe you are a yahoo boy when it comes to working from home especially when they see you with the system all the time..

shumuel:
Hmm Op what is the aim for creating this thread, to advice or to discourage ?

kay29000:
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This is the biggest problem I have with working from home.

kaycodes:
I believe that working from home has its gains.

For a techie like me, working from home has great advantages, since I get to work with a lot of smart peeps. I learn a lot on the job and I do what I love. Plus mine is structured.

However what I have learnt thus far is that you have to plan and stick to the plan. NO matter what. In my day to day tasks, I have learnt to start with a written plan, and then follow up. I have learnt to prioritize, and schedule properly.

Using my Google calendar helps me set time frames and reminders when I need to follow up with a customer and such.

If you don't organize your schedule you may burn out and suffer reduced performance.

I quite agree with your assertions on frustrations, but then it all depends on your personality. I keep very few friends, and I am free on weekends, no matter what I don't touch work on weekend except it's absolutely necessary. That's something I have learnt from my colleagues across the globe. If its not an emergency then let it be till the next business day, that's what my manager always tells me.

Again working from home is fantastic, but seriously it's not meant for everyone...

kaycodes:


Unfortunately it's something we got to live with.

I won't give up an excellent pay and flexibility because people can't understand or refuse to change their orientation.

vascable:

neither, just sharing my experience

shumuel:


Okay, nice one though

mitchyy:
I've been working from home for three years now and some of these things you mentioned isn't a challenge for me.
I have a team of persons who equally work from home, they don't need to come to my house. We only meet when we need to address some issues. So it's cheaper to pay them.
The only challenge is, when you are out with friends, you don't concentrate. You find yourself always checking your phone to monitor your blog or respond to mails from clients.
You are also very skeptical to go out, because when you do, you'll be scared sth might come out that you'll need to be online on your PC to handle. So if my outing isn't very important, i don't go.
I sleep well at night tho, but i always have a habit of waking up twice at the middle of the night to check for one thing or the other.
But i can never trade my working from home with a full-time job. Never

Craigston:
Your assertions are true except this one:
"Takeaway: There is always a girl behind
every successful man!"
For me, the take-away is, "let people do the work but take the credit for it".
If you think the CEOs of most companies do anything as much as the efforts of the unappreciated laborers they employ, then know that my take-away is correct.

phemoluv02:
Ole ni e joor (You are just lazy) ...just kidding tho no work no gain my broda, u just hv to sacrifice something, Good Luck bro