Working From Home Kinda Sucks

[Schneed10]

We all feel a huge push-pull in our lives when it comes to balancing work vs life. There's already plenty of pressure to put in extra hours at the office to keep up. Then there are blackberries and wifi leading to checking email in bed and on vacations. I think working from home is the ultimate integration of work into life.

Like when you get up from the computer at 5pm, do you really feel done for the day?

I only work from home when I need to put in a little bit of overtime, and it always makes me feel icky. I finish what I went online to do, but then when I go to get up I'm like "oh I should answer that one last email."

I think it will take tremendous self-discipline to know when and how to clearly draw the line between work mode and life mode. You certainly don't have geographic demarcation anymore, it's all up to you to self-enforce.

Good luck!