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My only office is my home-office
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I can work at an office, or from home
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I only can work by going into the office
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03-01-07, 01:00 PM
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| | Ih8mud stalker
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Castle Rock, CO
Posts: 1,118
| How many of you work from home?
Yeah...answer the poll...
My job lets me work from home about whenever I want (sitting on the couch with laptop on my lap watching Rachel Ray at the moment  ). I have an very nice large cube to work in if I'm at the office, and technically that is where I'm sposeto work, but my boss lets me work from wherever (home, my sister's house in Ohio, at night after 4wheeling in Silverton, CO ). I have some friends with similar flexibility, but I know not all jobs are like that (i.e. hospital job, you have to be there) and not all mgmt is accepting of it.
How flexible are your jobs?
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03-01-07, 01:11 PM
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| | I'm a zit. Get it?
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 89
| I live in Wisconsin and work out of my home for a place in CA. I probably fly out there 4-5 times a year when they have a company or department outing just to say hi.
Working from home 100% sounds great but it gets pretty boring sometimes. I work at my desk 99% of the time so I don't get too lazy. It Sounds like you have the best of both worlds.
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03-01-07, 01:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2005 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Posts: 1,800
| I have worked out my home for myself since 1978. I was a general contractor and have been a consultant for the past 22+ years. My job takes me to many different sites throughout south Florida as well as the occoasionl out of state/country site visits. Have made trips to Bahamas, Costa Rica, SC and Colorado in the past. One is pending later this spring to Indiana.
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03-01-07, 01:25 PM
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| | I can mangle anything...
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: BTR, PHX, OMA
Posts: 2,512
| Approximately 75% of my work could be done from home, but my employees need supervision and I have to be available when they have questions (and they have a lot)
also, in my experience, secretaries do not believe that you actually work when you say you work from home
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03-01-07, 02:04 PM
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| | Forum Lifer
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: North Carolina
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| Only office is at home.
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03-01-07, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 973
| mabrodis,
So just what is it you do and for who?
By the way I ordered 2 lbs of that crack you sell a couple weeks ago.
Down to my last 1/2 lb bag and getting nervous seeing that the end is soon.
When does toffee season actually end and why?
bill
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03-01-07, 03:15 PM
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| | ThinkTank Waterboy
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Boston MA
Posts: 12,978
| I do field service primarily in the north east. I have to say not having the man staring over my shoulders watching everything I do is really nice.
Lots of freedom as long as the work gets done. But you have to be self motivated and have some self control.
My current boss has the right attitude for me which is, no customer complaints, no problems. So I basically work to make his day less stressful and he lets me do what i want.
A perfect match as far as I'm concerned.
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03-01-07, 03:17 PM
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| | Rollin‘ on 33s...
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Brooklyn, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs
Posts: 3,873
| I used to work from home when I was freelancing. Loved it. Spent all day with the dog, lunch on the roof deck, work in my underwear etc.
Now I'm working for the man again, it's 9-6ish, but no more weekends!
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03-01-07, 05:12 PM
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| | Ih8mud stalker
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Castle Rock, CO
Posts: 1,118
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Originally Posted by fzj80kidpen  mabrodis,
So just what is it you do and for who?
By the way I ordered 2 lbs of that crack you sell a couple weeks ago.
Down to my last 1/2 lb bag and getting nervous seeing that the end is soon.
When does toffee season actually end and why?
bill | I work as a system/application admin for a company called Convergys, basically a whore company (manages call-centers worldwide)...all the systems I need to get into I can get into remotely either via the corporate vpn or port forwarding, ssh-tunnel, etc...great work situation but the work is boring, not-challenging (atleast not in a way I'd like...answering dumb e-mails is not challenging, no matter how many of them IMO)...
Toffee season more or less ends because I either get tired of making it or it gets to where it's too warm to ship, it does not ship terribly great, since in those bags it's stacked, so getting warm means it sticks together, still tastes good, but in one giant clump and customers get angry...usually though I stop making it because I don't want to be surprised one day when I'm busy doing something else (or out of town) and bam, I have a few orders which takes time, I don't always have the ingredients still on-hand, etc... (is that all enough justification to distract from the core issue of me being lazy?)
__________________ "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward
'96 4runner, 3.4L, 5sp, E-locker, 242K miles
'85 Mini, 2nd owner...add-ons: 31" MTRs, oil & dirt stains, 190K miles
'00 Echo, 255K miles, 1.5L of FURY!
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03-01-07, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| I work upstairs here (which is in my backyard).
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Originally Posted by IronYuppy Anything that somehow curtails the incessant bleating by iPhone users about how fucking marvelous and life-affirming their phones are is fine by me.
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03-01-07, 05:46 PM
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| | Site Addict
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Norwich, VT
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| sometimes I think I'm better at homing from work | |
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03-01-07, 07:19 PM
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| | Supamod
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Knee deep in hookers and gin
Posts: 6,301
| I don't even work at work.
Probably why I'm there 80 hours a week
It probably wouldn't work to teach high school auto shop from home.
My garage isn't that big. | 
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03-01-07, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampster
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| My last gig was about 50% out of the house or on the road and 50% in the office. The office was technically on the road since I stayed local when I was there so I was away from home about 70% of the time...too much for me. In the office at the moment but working on a gig that will be 100% out of the house. | |
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03-01-07, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ATLcrusher I work upstairs here (which is in my backyard). | That is one sweet looking building!!! | |
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03-01-07, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Texas, of course.
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| I work all over the place. I do ring and pinions for a Ford dealership. I have a Corvette specialty shop that calls me in for work when they can't figure the problem out. I work at a transmission shop part time,do auto painting at a body shop sometimes,and have two shops of my own. Whew,yes,I'm busy.
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03-01-07, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Queensland
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Originally Posted by ATLcrusher I work upstairs here (which is in my backyard). | Your house is in your backyard 
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03-02-07, 01:03 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Vacaville
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| wow reading this thread reminds me I probably should get a job.
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there is a limit to what one country can afford to do, and we have hit ours. what use is winning their freedom, if it costs us our own?
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03-02-07, 02:40 AM
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| | Forum Lifer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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| Free lance pornography werx 4 me!
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03-02-07, 02:58 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Laurentians North of Montreal, QC
Posts: 1,522
| Been self-employed since 1980, couldn't imagine doing it any other way.
Of course, I don't have a pension plan, work many more hours than I actually bill and will probably work till I croak, but I've managed to stay independent and do what I like with little interference from the square-wheeled idiots that infest the corporate world at all levels.
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03-02-07, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by oldIron That is one sweet looking building!!! | Quote:
Originally Posted by OZCAL Your house is in your backyard | Thanks. I put a lot of...thought into it.
That's not my house. It's my garage. Just finished in December. Actually, I now have half my house torn off and am going through MAJOR renovation/expansion.
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Originally Posted by IronYuppy Anything that somehow curtails the incessant bleating by iPhone users about how fucking marvelous and life-affirming their phones are is fine by me.
Where's the "shut the fuck up" app, and why haven't you downloaded it yet? | | |
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