Mishidoo:
I've been working from home for a while now and I can identify with the op's experience. But i've also found out it can be prevented (or solved as it was in my case).

After working from home for a while, I got to that point where I had to sit in front of a computer all through the day, and into the night sometimes. This is the point you don't want to reach. I got burnt out, became less productive, hardly left the house, worked weekends yet despised mondays .... summary, it got ugly. But then I found a balance. I was working with a software company over the internet, and I changed my shift time to early mornings (4 hours only). I cut down on the time I spent blogging by a great deal and arranged a proper schedule, and I'm now starting a business that takes me out of the house almost every day.

I love working from home. The rewards are many. If there is one advice I would give it'll be "dont work more than 8 hours a day". In fact i recommend less hours and a physical business on the side. Also, dont let it kill your social life, try to go out every day for something productive.

About people feeling you don't have a job, it sucks but I try not to let it get to me.

Dumdum217:
But OP, do you believe that working online from home keeps you out of troubles, especially from women wahala huh?

kaycodes:


Nothing keeps you out of women wahala, if you got the cash to spend them go find you see, if you like work from the moon or Jupiter

egedege1:
No pain no gain ;DNo pain no gain

ShakurM:
if na love Op talk, u no go complain o .

Well, Summarily, Op is into blogging at home, his home is his office and he states the challenges he is facing and has faced which includes Frustration, working like a slave putting his hard work into the blogging, drawing the line between office n home, zero social life, no time to turn up, setting targets n aiming at them like point and kill. Lastly his gf standing by him, a great manager she is according to Op.

refiner:


lol....funny u...

hnmmm fanx for d summary buh I fink dis ur summary is still long....can u pls summarize dis ur summary for me...

how much will you pay?

ShakurM:
how much will you pay?

refiner:


name ur price.....

I'm shy

ShakurM:
I'm shy

usermane:
Hey, OP. Reduce the number of blog posts you publish daily, weekly or monthly and respond to only important comments on your blog post. Consider outsourcing some of your work too. You sound like a Jack of all trade kind of blogger. Truth is, as your blog grow and earn significant traffic, researching new topics, reading and responding to comments, writing and editing manuscripts for blog posts become a tall order for one person.

People mistake working from home as freedom. This is not true. The only guaranteed gain in it is that you become self employed, period. Working from home don't necessarily mean more time for yourself as most people imagine.

And blogging, coming up with regular quality posts to generate and maintain significant traffic is strenuous. With all these, it takes a couple of years before the passive income start to flow.