Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Working from home: good & bad

Good:
  • Working hours are flexible: You don't necessarily have to sleep early the night before because there is no such thing as getting to work on time. You can start as and when you feel like
  • The dress code is flexible: a torn T-shirt, shorts, pyjamas, barefooted, you don't even have to comb your hair, brush your teeth cause the only contact with the outside world you'll ever have is via the internet or the phone
  • Lunch breaks are flexible: You may go out for one, two or even three hours for lunch + shopping, no worries!
  • No supervision: You can work for ten minutes, play online games for 3 hours, do your laundry, take a nap, play catch with your dog, watch tv - Heck! You can work in front of the TV the whole day!
  • Breakfast: You don't have to worry about the morning traffic, missing the bus or the train, you can have breakfast and read the morning paper in peace
  • Environment: You can work at home, at the nearest Starbucks, at your boyfriends place, the ice cream parlour, be adventurous - pick one day in a week where you work somewhere other than home
  • It reduces your carbon footprint as you don't have to travel to and from work *pat on back*
Bad:
  • Boredom: Hrmmmph!
  • Your productivity rate largely relies on personal discipline.
  • The family expects you to do all chores, since you're at home all day anyway.
  • You constantly need to fight evil distractions: you convince yourself you need a break from the monotony and you end up baking (for hours), your friends who brilliantly invite you out for happy hours, unnecessary surfing, online shopping, watching soaps on tv
  • You get tired of staying at home and jump at any opportunity to get out of the house!

3 comments:

ranga said...

This sounds verrrry familiar ;)

Tsu Lin + + said...

Your list shows (A whole lot) MORE GOOD than bad! So, I bet it's all worth it! (**Tsu Lin nods head**)

Melissa said...

@ranga: Hee =)

@tsu lin: Thanks- more good than bad although I forgot to include that you can get chubby from sitting at home all day *YIKES* =S