Here are the reasons:

It’s just too boring. There’s no looking forward to having a nice lunch with friends. No after office shopping sprees with your girlfriends. No gossips in the pantry area.

It can get really hot at home. I can’t afford to turn on the airconditioner the whole day especially if it needs to be on at night too. Imagine yourself working while sweating or breathing hot air from your monitor.

The bed is just a few steps away. It seems to call your name every hour.

Lots of great movies to watch during day time. TV shows included. The next thing you know, it’s five o’clock and you’re so far from done.

For single people – no chance to meet someone new.

There are so many excuses that you can come up with why you weren’t able to finish your job. There was a brown out, your internet went down, your PC crashed, you had a virus, your phone line is not working, it’s too hot, you’re too lazy, you slept too late.

But really, what I want to achieve is this.


*from http://ffffound.com/

My husband promised that we will do this as soon as we move to a bigger place next year. I’m excited! If we’re lucky, I might have a chance to get my own work area too.

If only I can wish that it’s Monday all the time. I admit I’m getting stressed every morning whenever I see that my inbox has more than 40 emails. They’re not all for me, most of the time, they’re just an update for a project that I’m part of. However, since I was the last one who updated the project the night before they came in, I’m always expecting that one of the emails will contain either mistakes on my end or new tasks that I have no idea how to do.

Just like any other employee who works 8-5 daily, I also shut down my computer. I’m mostly done with day-to-day tasks by 5PM but I keep my computer open just in case I want to browse for entertainment purposes or play online with my kid. Clients think I’m still available because I’m online. Most of the time, I try to do their requests even if it’s already 9PM. I do this because I care about their projects. I know that even if it’s not a life and death situation, they seem to think that it is so I do my best to accommodate these requests. Some of them even send three hours worth of work just before my bed time. So we both live in different time zones but that doesn’t mean I have to work the same time as them, unless stated in a contract.

I always get online during the weekends with my YM and Gmail set to invisible. Still, I’d get tons of buzzes and offline messages from clients asking if I can fix something. It’s the weekends people. I have a life too. And again, just like any ordinary employee, I don’t “go to work” during weekends. This means you can’t expect to get something done immediately or call me when I’m trying to spend some quality time with the family.

Like I’ve said, I’m not really strict with the schedule. But please don’t think that I’m a computer just because I work virtually.

It’s not the case today, luckily. Which means I can wrap up around 6PM, play with my daughter and look forward to watching my favorite TV shows tonight. Tuesday night is my TV night and the only day of the week when no one can touch the remote control but me. So while it’s early, I’ll have to finish reviewing this vocational and technical college guide so I can push through with my plans.

I’m still sick by the way but because the agent said the magic word (urgent!), my mind will not rest until I’lI get to it.It’s three days before Christmas and here I am working like the Grinch. I have about twenty million tasks at hand until December 26 and I doubt I can finish half of them in a matter of two days.

I am so thankful for this job. But sometimes, it just gets too much.

Copy Editor for Online Publication – Proofreading and editing of manuscripts at $50 per project. Highly skilled in Microsoft Word’s tracking and changes feature.

Needlepoint Experts – Be a guide and earn about $725 a month. Should be capable of explaining the basics of needlepoint as well as complicated projects for intermediate and experienced needlepointers.

Desperate Housewives blogger – Post spoilers, insight, discussion and the latest news about the hit TV show. You must be a fan of course and be able to blog and recap as soon as an episode has been shown.

Web Designer – Start-up company needs someone to design and code their website. Experience with HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop and Macromedia Flash are required.

Content Dev for Mom Blog Space – Will be using Drupal to program and publish Web content including video, blogs and forums.  you will also write original copies, copyediting other contributors’ work and do a series of social networking and moderation of forums.

A home office in the living room.

A small office in a walk in closet

Eclectic style

An art studio. Big enough for my husband and me.

You’d think I have free time to browse or check old emails while waiting for the files but no. While I’m waiting, I get 3-5 instant messages from co-workers who needed to discuss projects with me before they leave the office. 6AM-9AM is our only chance to meet daily so we make sure to keep in touch. By 10AM, the only thing I’ve done is download/check out files, chat with colleagues and prepare my local for incoming work. By this time, my laptop will give up because of too many browsers and applications open. I will have to restart and open all of them again, eating another 30 minutes or so of my time.