I've enjoyed working from home for about 8 years. It suits me. It suits my personality and my lifestyle. I have the ability to tune things out and sit down at a desk and get things done. Normally, I don't have the need to go out or have a lot of face-to-face interaction with others. The phone gives me plenty of interaction with people and I like that when I hang up, they can't just come into my office a few minutes later.
Rarely, I miss water cooler talk. I don't enjoy gossip and don't feel the need to be intimately involved in the details of other's lives or want people to know the details of mine. No, I definitely don't miss working in an office.
However, the flip side of working from home is that it's difficult for me to walk away from the office when there are still things left to be done. I can sit downstairs, but I'll be thinking about what is upstairs for me to be doing. When I got married, I definitely became better at walking away from the work when my husband got home. He taught me that work shouldn't be my life. He has such a good outlook on working to live, not living to work.
Now, as we are embarking on this new adventure, I think again about working from home and the changes that are about to take place. Can I seriously work from home with a baby? Should we look into child care? Should I try to reduce the number of hours I work? Can I possibly work part-time?
A long time ago, I was taught that you cannot serve 2 masters, for you will cling to one and despise the other. This little one is definitely more important to me than work is, but would I be a good mom if I wasn't working and have "grown up" interaction?
I guess these are all things that we'll have to figure out as we go....Isn't that what life is? Figuring it out as you go???????
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