My wonderful, intelligent, beautiful wife has returned to work today from her maternity leave. As a result, I am working from home from now until the end of the school year for her, approximately 5 weeks. I am working on figuring out the balance between work and home. Sure, I have worked at home before for a few days when someone is sick and needs care, but that is easier to manage as it is such a short time. With this, I need to care for a 2 and half month old baby, get work done and still do some thing around the house.

I am fortunate that my job allows this flexibility and that my position is not a strict 9 to 5 type existence. I can work in bursts and really at any hour. I like that anyway as I have never been good at a “time to turn work on” kind of person.

I have been reading lifehacker, a productivity blog, trying to pick up some ideas and try them out. Some will work, some will not. I need to be ready to accept those that do and quickly move on from those that do not. I am also creating some tools to help with a remote existence from work. Again, trial and error.

I will be going into the office at least one day a week and more as May moves on and more “help” is available. I do need to be present for some meetings and to give feedback on certain things.

Advantage to working at home:

• Access to my CD’s and stereo
• the Kitchen
• Ability to not shower and shave if I want (STINKY!)

Disadvantage of working from home:

• Getting over the “home” vs “work” zone/time
• Access to my CD’s and stereo
• Ability to not shower and shave if I want (STINKY!)

And just for good measure:

This entry was posted on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 10:24 am and is filed under General, Home.