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I've worked from home for four years now and can't imagine consistently getting anything done at an office. And that is even with three young children in the h
by timf 17y ago
I've worked from home for four years now and can't imagine consistently getting anything done at an office.
And that is even with three young children in the house because they know that when I'm at work, I'm not available and concentrating. Our development team's communications revolve around high bandwidth when necessary, but otherwise leaving each other delicately alone. But that would be different at the office: there would be many lunches and things of that nature as well as coworkers we are not directly working together with who have (admittedly very interesting) things to distract us with.
Sometimes I do need to break out my "cone of silence" which is a mix of earplugs AND whitenoise on headphones.
At one point I rented a spare office in a coffeeshop a block from my house... that went OK, it definitely helped with the "separate work environment" psychology that I think is necessary. The biggest problem with that was being in a coffeeshop: temptation to spend money on espresso constantly. After about 6 months of that, I decided to come back home. YMMV.
- shpxnvz 17y agoAnd that is even with three young children in the house because they know that when I'm at work, I'm not available and concentrating Interesting. With one little girl in the house I find the occasional interruptions when she comes to visit downright welcome. A minute spent laughing with her always puts me in a good mood. I do imagine that three at a time could be a little distracting, though.
- xtimesninety 17y agoI'm interested on what whitenoise you are listening to? There are times it feels too silent in my home office but I'm also not in the mood to listen to music.
- sparky 17y agoI like the brown noise on http://www.simplynoise.com http://www.simplynoise.com , personally. They have a thunderstorm soundscape on there too that is nice sometimes.
- timf 17y agoI made it myself with audacity. Wearing earplugs at the same time, if I get the whitenoise to where I can just hear it this lets me work even in coffeeshops in almost pure silence. If you want the actual mp3, email me (email via profile).