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tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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I work from home. Whatdya wanna know? It's toughest the first 3 months you do it, then you get a schedule down and it's just like work. I am pretty lucky though, the company I work for is pretty leinient(sp) on my hours...as long as I get my crap done and work 40 hours in a week, I'm good to go, they like me to try and be around the house during business hours though. Tell ya the truth though, I get most of my work done between 8pm and 2am.....

 

BTW....I do Application programming, a lot of database stuff, and a lot of software testing, I try to break sh*t, and then fix it.

 

can't beat the commute either.

gave20 Senior Enthusiast

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BTW....I do Application programming, a lot of database stuff, and a lot of software testing, I try to break sh*t, and then fix it.

You must be slackin off then cause most all of our software has bugs and errors and never works right, so you call the IT people and "yes we know about that problem heres 10 longer steps you now have to do to correct/ go around the problem". BTW I work for the gov so everything they touch turns to shi....

J-rod Enthusiast

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Heh, I get plenty of SPAM about "Becoming a millionaire by working at home" and that type of shizzle ... I can give em your email address if ya want! :thumbs:

 

Seriously though, I think you've got the right idea. I'm a programmer as well and soooo much of my job could be done from home. Granted it's nice to be able to walk down the hall to someone else's cube if ya have a question, but on the flipside, if I were at home they couldn't walk down the hall and bug me with questions when I'm in the middle of something! :thumbs:

ekonk Enthusiast

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I do insurance inspections for commercial business property. I'm based out of my home, but I have to travel a fair amount of the time. Basically anywhere from 25-75% of my work week is spent away from home, the rest of it is in my home office writing reports, scheduling visits, etc.

 

It's very nice to work at home/have flexible hours, but I still have to get my work done. The downisde is that when I'm not working, everything is still right there, lurking behind that door.

tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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LOL....if I didn't make software with bugs in it, I would be out of a job.....there would be nothing to work on once it was released. The point about not having people be able to bug you is very true. It kinda sucks sometimes because if I have a question I can't walk down the hall, but I just use IM or email which is almost as good.

I know I get more work done in 3 hours of working at home, then I ever would working 8 in an office. There are just to many d**n distractions....that's why I do most of my work at night..everyone is asleep and there's nothing on TV, to get my ADHD going....LOL

Greg Senior Enthusiast

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One of my co-workers works from his home a couple states away in the next time zone. He connects to our servers via a VPN and runs production jobs starting at 5:00 AM his time. This allows him to update the rest of the staff on how things are running when we arrive at work an hour later, 7:00 AM our time. (We process and warehouse date from many different sources. Sometimes (often) these sources forget what they're doing.) His day is usually not a regular 8 hours. Sometimes he's done by 10:00 AM. Sometimes people at the office have to fix things and he has to take some time off in the middle of the day and start again at 3:00 PM. He gets paid only for the hours he works. He's an expert at the legacy operating system he works on (Honeywell Bull) and is in constant communication with co-workers via instant messenger.

 

Why do you want to work from home? Some folks really miss the social aspect of being at the office. Then there's the "out of sight, out of mind" attitude of some management. (Our management marked the above person for down-sizing until someone convinced them that no-one else could do his job.) I found that working 1 day a week at home and the rest in the office worked well for me. Without the constant interruptions, I could spend that day working on what was really important, not just urgent.

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