If you’re working from home, then your ability to get lots done and stay on task is going to have a huge, direct impact on your lifestyle and happiness. Finish early and you have the option to simply head downstairs, have a cup of coffee and start relaxing! There’s no commute, no boss looking over your shoulder, and no requirement to work set hours (so long as the work gets done). Hey, you could even put that extra time to good use by starting a side project, further developing your skills, etc.
Then there’s the fact that working from home can mean working in your perfect work environment, near to the people you love, and with the freedom to come and go as you please – or even to completely change your work hours!
But if you don’t have the discipline and motivation to actually get work done, then it can be a completely different story. Now you’re more likely to find the experience highly stressful and overwhelming: you might well find yourself with a huge list of tasks that you have no idea how to tackle. The line between downtime and work might have become blurred, and you might be constantly working late, forgetting to shave, and generally failing to maintain a work-life balance.
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it’s amazing how so many more folks are homebased, the pandemic really has massively changed this and forced incredible evolution in products such as Zoom and Teams. It would great to see your eBook and the suggestions it contains.
Hello Jon,
What I say below is not a criticism but, hopefully, a shared experience.
I had to laugh at some of the claims you made above. We have had different experiences.
Especially:
“There’s no commute, no boss looking over your shoulder, and no requirement to work set hours.”
True in some respects.
However, I had a part-time, three-day week job for four years, lecturing in the School of Computing at the local university. Now perhaps I am slow at what I do, but I found I was working virtually every day of the week creating the courses, then delivering them, marking etc.
I finally retired at the end of August 2022. They wanted me to do another year, but I had had enough.
What blew it for me was being asked to create a course to run over the summer in Information Security Management for prospective Computer Science students.
“All the information is there; another lecturer prepared the material and delivered it to students last semester. So all you have to do is reformat it.”
What rubbish.
A little research told me that he had delivered the ISACA CISM syllabus virtually verbatim and spent 4 or 5 sessions on the mathematics of encryption.
Possibly ok for Computer Science students but totally unsuitable for the students I was to address.
Now, this is a subject in which I have a great deal of practical experience. Hence I took a different viewpoint. I had spent my time in Industry working for companies like BP, Shell, and British Gas, writing and implementing processes and procedures, including ISO27001. The previous lecturer had no real-time experience in an employed position in Industry. He was a career academic.
However, I do appreciate that you have a different viewpoint and that there may be benefits to working from home. I too appreciated it, especially over the covid period.
As you say, you must “have the discipline and motivation actually to get work done.”
Regards