I work at home, and have worked at home since I graduated college. In high school and college I had my share working at “traditional” jobs outside of home, but this has been my life for 5 years now.
I see people on television who work out of their homes and their experiences don’t seem QUITE the same as mine. I am curious to know what other people’s work at home routines are like.
My routine is really set:
Wake up around 10, go into office and check email, say hey to my 2 coworkers (over IM), see what’s up. Have some cereal at my desk. Work some. Have a quick (20 min or so) lunch, work more. Leave my desk around 5:30 and shut the door - not to return again until the next day.
I leave the house every day after work to go work out or go to my bowling league. On Fridays if I don’t work out I try to plan a date with a guy or go grocery shopping, or do my personal finances. Saturday and Sunday I rarely venture into my office.
I’m lucky in that in my old house and new house I had my own room as an office. In the old house is was a small 4x5 room off the side of the family room. I did have to interact with at-home “roommates” (read: parents) when I was at my old house. Now at the new house it’s all SILENCE and I love it. No tv, rarely any music, no distractions.
My job doesn’t really require much in-person client interaction, so I don’t get dressed until I leave for the day. My “work uniform” is just jammies.
For the first year, my partner and I worked together in his house. We used to work 24 hours a day. Took me a year or so to figure out that working 24 hours a day is stupid and didn’t do anything except make me sick and crabby.
So, other work-at-home folks - what’s your schedule like during the day? Stay At Home Moms and Dads, what do you do all day?