Your Home as a Workplace

What is your job like? Do you spend forty hours each week in a greasy restaurant? Is a good part of your life spent on a factory floor? Do you claim dominion over little more than a cramped cubicle? Are you behind the counter of a retail store selling things about which you could care less?

No matter what your job is like, it probably does not provide an optimal environment. Even if you do have a great office with a comfortable leather chair, some of those chrome balls to click back and forth when you are on the phone, and a framed motivational print featuring full-color photography of Mount Everest, there is probably somewhere else you would prefer to be.

No matter where you put in your hours, there are hassles getting there and back. Scraping ice and snow off a car windshield in February. Leaning on the horn in rush hour traffic every Friday afternoon. Maybe you get packed into a subway like a sardine in a can or have to share the bus with a collection of unsavory characters. It might only take you a few minutes to get to work, but you may also be one of the horde of commuters who spend hours of their lives each and every day just coming to and from the job.

There is an alternative to all of that ugliness. Wouldn’t it be nice to roll out of bed, click your fingers and be at work? When the day was done, you could be sitting on your couch or playing with your children in the blink of an eye. That would be great, wouldn’t it?

And the workplace itself? Imagine having a bed nearby for a mid-day nap if you needed one. A full refrigerator stocked with the kind of foods you enjoy would make for a better lunch than your usual brown bag feast, the company cafeteria or another fast food place. It would be awesome to replace that horrible, dull background music with the kind of tunes you really enjoy. Oh, and since we are thinking of a comfortable workplace, let us make sure we do away with dress codes, too.

Well, we have presented two options. The traditional work environment that has long, and always will, inspire a series of gripes, is the one we already know. Our fantastic alternative sounds a lot like paradise. Or home.

It is home. It is possible to work there, too. Thousands of people have given up messing around with traditional jobs and all of the associated discomfort and hassles and have found refuge in running their own at-home business. They get to enjoy their surroundings, avoid traffic, and make the most out of every day without expending time and effort just to clock in. Some are telecommuters. Others own their own businesses outright and operate them from a desk in the den or kitchen breakfast nook.

Those who work from home also gain some other significant advantages. They control their earnings and the money can be very good. They control the whole operation, giving them an unparalleled sense of job satisfaction. They make their own hours--the ultimate in flexibility. They do not commute; increasing their efficiency and the amount of time, they have available for recreation and family time. They do not have to kow-tow to anyone and get to establish and implement their own rules and policies instead of relying upon middle managers who do not seem to have an idea of how things really work.

Are you ready to get out of your current workplace and into something a bit more comfortable? Are you tired of wasting countless hours just getting to and from a job you do not really enjoy? If so, it may be time for you to investigate joining those who have found working at home to be the perfect solution. Take the time to find and read some valuable information about working from home and decide whether you are the kind of person who would benefit from having all of the comforts of home as your workplace.