I worked from home off and on for around 7 years (with sporadic office visits). The hardest part is making sure you keep focused on work during work hours. I f

I worked from home off and on for around 7 years (with sporadic office visits). The hardest part is making sure you keep focused on work during work hours. I found myself often going stir crazy and ended up spending lots of time in coffee shops/mcdonald's/panera/library/whatever in order to just have human contact. I remember after a 3 month stint working virtually alone I found myself going to the grocery store to buy something I didn't need just so I could interact with the cashiers. What I found helps is to schedule a place you'll be (like a coffee shop) and what you'll be doing there and for how long (usually a couple of hours) and stick to that schedule. Go there, work and leave on schedule. And when you're there interact with every human you can -- don't take the automated checkout kiosk route. Also, it's easy to end up working outside of normal office hours simply because there's no "break" from work to home. Don't give in to this temptation. Also, communicate your pants off. Spend more time than is necessary communicating in triplicate on everything, using every means at your disposal. It's very easy for people to dismiss you because you aren't there. By being a constant squeaky wheel in their inboxes/vm-box/etc. you make yourself known and it means that they have to consider you when making decisions. This also means it might be necessary to drop by every so often for surprise and impromptu office visits just so people know you are alive.