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"check company IRC, say good morning, make sure nothing’s on fire yet" etc etc The thing I get from this whole post is that the author lacks passion for his wo

by matt1 18y ago

"check company IRC, say good morning, make sure nothing’s on fire yet" etc etc The thing I get from this whole post is that the author lacks passion for his work. His tone makes his work sound like some terrible chore that he's forced to do. Don't get me wrong: a "good job" every now and then is always nice, but not receiving it shouldn't be the primary reason you shouldn't work from home. If you're the type of person that gets bored easily or needs lots of external feedback in order to motivate yourself, working from home/starting your own business is going to be very difficult.

jimbokun 18y ago
"If you're the type of person that gets bored easily or needs lots of external feedback in order to motivate yourself, working from home/starting your own business is going to be very difficult." If you are the kind of person who is NOT motivated by external feedback, how are you going to be successful in business when so much of succeeding in business is responding to the external feedback you receive from customers? Not all of this comes from face to face interaction, true, but it would probably help to have such interaction with customers on occasion. Probably much of how your customers perceive and interact with your product, and how they perceive your company, will only be apparent from body language cues. This is not to argue against working from home, but to argue that external feedback is almost always important.
- matt1 18y ago
  Yes yes, you're right. What I meant was that you have to be internally motivated. You can't be the type of person who has to have people tell you to do things in order to get them done. Feedback from your customers is very important and is one of the best ways to determine if you're on the right course (though as many have pointed out, you should often correctly ignore it.)

by matt1 18y ago

jimbokun 18y ago

"If you're the type of person that gets bored easily or needs lots of external feedback in order to motivate yourself, working from home/starting your own business is going to be very difficult." If you are the kind of person who is NOT motivated by external feedback, how are you going to be successful in business when so much of succeeding in business is responding to the external feedback you receive from customers? Not all of this comes from face to face interaction, true, but it would probably help to have such interaction with customers on occasion. Probably much of how your customers perceive and interact with your product, and how they perceive your company, will only be apparent from body language cues. This is not to argue against working from home, but to argue that external feedback is almost always important.

matt1 18y ago
Yes yes, you're right. What I meant was that you have to be internally motivated. You can't be the type of person who has to have people tell you to do things in order to get them done. Feedback from your customers is very important and is one of the best ways to determine if you're on the right course (though as many have pointed out, you should often correctly ignore it.)