is bad for my A.D.D.

3/18/2010 11:19:36 AM

tww doesn't help

3/18/2010 11:24:07 AM

3/18/2010 11:25:39 AM

I too loathe working from home for the same re

3/18/2010 11:26:55 AM

i currently work 3 days in the office (in fayetteville) and 2 days from home (in winston-salem). took a new job at beginning of the year and wife is finishing up the school year (teacher). So until June tww will be my nemesis 2 days a week.

3/18/2010 11:31:15 AM

I too loathe working from home for the same re

3/18/2010 11:31:51 AM

its better than unemployed from home

3/18/2010 11:32:26 AM

definitely true. i'm not complaining about being employed! just bad a.d.d.

3/18/2010 11:33:52 AM

i work from home a lot and i find the best way for me to concentrate is to sit down at a desk and work off a to do list. usually i'll have the news on while i do it and i work in a separate room in the house. in the past when i've tried working from home on the couch or dining room table i'd be staring out the window or getting into stupid tv shows. it helps me to go into a room shut the door and focus in

also i like to go to coffee shops and work because i find i can concentrate better with other things going on around me

3/18/2010 2:04:42 PM

i worked from home for about 2-3 days a week for a year when i was working for the lab.
it was nice.

^what she said

3/18/2010 2:05:45 PM

Maintaining a list helps me too. Sometimes it makes all the difference in the world when you get really tired of one thing to go knock out a couple of easier tasks before coming back to the difficult one.

I do work from the couch in the living room a lot, but I usually throw on some low volume music on my iPod dock in the kitchen or on one of the music channels on the TV (playing through the stereo with the tv turned off). That way I'm not in total silence, but it's not a distraction either. My ADD goes crazy if I try to work in a totally silent environment and the tv would distract me if it were turned on.

I also try to get out for 15-30 minutes when things get really tiresome. It's easy to get bored/unproductive staring at the computer all day. Just jumping in the car and driving to the grocery store can be a good refresher. I do this in the office too, so it's not exclusive to WFH days.

[Edited on March 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM. Reason : s]

3/18/2010 2:14:59 PM

oh yeah the #1 benefit of working from home is being able to take care of other shit

laundry, errands, post office, library, mall -- anything that i avoid because it's normally too busy, i can take care of on off hours and when the work day is over i can really do whatever i want & usually end up going to bed so much earlier

3/18/2010 2:22:53 PM

I try to WFH about 2 times per week

3/18/2010 2:24:58 PM