During the first few months of working from home I felt very lonely. I went from working in an office 30 hours a week while in college to being alone four days a week. I looked forward to daily calls from a girlfriend on her lunch break, or the weekly meeting with my co-workers and publisher. It can be incredibly lonely even now.Besides missing the human interaction, I don’t have co-workers to bounce ideas off or give instant feedback. Email and phone conversations can be useful, and I prefer doing most work via email, but there can never be a true replacement for face-to-face interaction with peers.
Time management and distractions can be hard to manage when working from home. I have to make running lists of things to do so I can stay on track. These lists include everything from interviewing an author for next month’s feature and tracking visitors to the site, to balancing my checkbook and calling the florist. When there is no physical divider between your professional and personal life, you have to treat them as one.
Photo by JosiahRitchi.
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