On working from home and office setup

One of the reasons why I don’t like working from home now is that I don’t have an ideal office setup. I do have some resemblance of a home office in a little hole-in-the-wall that I have in my bedroom, but frankly, I would need a MUCH better setup if I were to work from home on a regular basis.

If I had the right equipment (e.g. if I had enough space in my tiny apartment) to have a full-blown home office, I probably would work from home more. But, the truth is (a) I have a very good setup at The Network Hub and (b) I really don’t like the way my home office is set up right now. If I had it my way, I probably would have a home office that looked like the one on the photo on the left. I have been looking for IKEA stuff.

So, when do I actually work from home? It’s usually under one of the circumstances below:

• I don’t have meetings with clients set up downtown, nor do I teach on that day.
• I have to wait for any contractors to do work on the house, like today – the plumber had to come and fix our laundry
• I am sick and I don’t want to pass my cold along to anyone else
• I am working late and I realize that taking a bus home at 3:30am is not going to work. So I go home and work from home for the rest of the evening
• I have a particular program that I don’t have uploaded in my laptop and only in my desktop

When do you find yourself working from home? And, do you enjoy it? [On that note, I'm getting ready to go downtown as I was working at home this morning because the contractor was fixing the laundry drain]

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