[147196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On Working Remotely
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Radcliffe)
Mon Dec 5 12:01:38 2011
From: David Radcliffe <david@davidradcliffe.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:00:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20111205154003.GP22948@netmeister.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I know many people who can work as you and we all adjust to our setting. I
just also know people who gravitate to their distractions and need the wall to
define work. It's best for me even though I will work as effectively at
midnight as in the middle of the day.
I have to say I am impressed. Working with a 4 year old and 2 month old
around. Wow.
On Monday, December 05, 2011 10:40:04 AM Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
> For whatever it's worth:
>
> I have been working from home for the last 3.5 years. I live in
> Manhattan in a one-bedroom with a 4 year and now a 2 months old
> daughter, meaning I work on my laptop in the middle of the livingroom
> with all my life around me.
>
> I context-switch a lot; I put down the laptop to read my daughters a
> story or play for a few minutes, I go shopping, cook etc. But: when I
> go to visit the office (about once a quarter or so), I wonder how on
> earth my colleagues get any work done. They are constantly interrupted,
> asked to have coffee, lunch, breakfast, a snack, go for a walk and just
> chew the fat.
>
> Yes, I work a lot at night and on the weekends. That is the one thing
> that people who do not work from home are not aware of: you have no more
> distinction between "home" and "office", which usually means that when
> I'm home, I'm working.
>
> I could see how having a "home office" with a closed door could create
> this impression of "going to the office" and "coming home", but I don't
> find it either desirable nor (in Manhattan) practical.
>
> -Jan
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David Radcliffe
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