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How to Work from Home Without Going Crazy

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Re: How to Work from Home Without Going Crazy

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I don't think you should feel guilty. This is the nature of our work. There are days where you "feel" it and days where you don't. There are days when there is a lot to do and there are days when you're in a holding pattern to see what's happening with something. At least here in Pennsylvania, the state labor board actually recognizes this fact and has classified software development professionals as "salaried, exemp…

I don't think I should feel guilty either, yet I do anyway. I don't want to give the impression that I think the guilt is rational, though. Still, rational or not, the feeling is real, and I'm not the only person by any means to have it. I often wonder what it's like for people who need to use their minds when they work yet are under inflexible schedules, such as teachers. They too must have good and bad days, but th…

From the teachers I know, and I went to a university that is traditionally a teaching school, they don't use their minds much at all. Most teachers aren't dedicated to the job, they're just looking for a job. They show up, punch the clock, zombie their way through the day, go home at the end of the day, and repeat the next day.

Re: How to Work from Home Without Going Crazy

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I've worked from home for four years now and can't imagine consistently getting anything done at an office. And that is even with three young children in the house because they know that when I'm at work, I'm not available and concentrating. Our development team's communications revolve around high bandwidth when necessary, but otherwise leaving each other delicately alone. But that would be different at the office:…

I'm interested on what whitenoise you are listening to? There are times it feels too silent in my home office but I'm also not in the mood to listen to music.

I made it myself with audacity. Wearing earplugs at the same time, if I get the whitenoise to where I can just hear it this lets me work even in coffeeshops in almost pure silence. If you want the actual mp3, email me (email via profile).
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