Home Office Happiness

Posted: February 7, 2009 
Filed under: Writing
Tagged: creativity, freelance, home office, inspired, work from home
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I love working from a home office. I like that I was able to choose all my own computer equipment instead of getting what the IT department decided to “bless” me with. I love cuddling up on my couch with a blanket and my laptop on cold afternoons. I really, really love being able to run out to do errands for an hour in the morning if I’m not too busy with client work.

Becoming a freelancer and beginning to work from a home office really helped my creativity and mental clarity too. My home is my haven, so being here definitely makes me feel ready to let the words pour out of me and onto paper (well – onto the laptop keys anyway – don’t use pen and paper all that often!) When I worked an office job, sitting in that tiny cubicle drained me mentally. Bland white walls, ugly grey carpet and a poor layout combined for a very disheartening effect every morning when I walked in the door. Not to mention the negativity created by bickering co-workers and the interruptions of constant meetings.

Not everyone finds working from a home office to be ideal though. Some freelancers find the home environment to be very distracting – they may spend too much time catching up on household tasks or watching television. It’s very important to be aware of what your idea location is and take advantage of your self-employment to optimize your environment. Maybe you need a co-working space or tiny office out of the house, maybe you need a very well contained space within your home that makes you feel like you left home and went “to work”, or maybe, like me, you are lucky enough to benefit from your home’s ambience and you are ready to take on all the client work the world throws at you!