{"id":2639,"date":"2013-01-22T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2013-01-22T21:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:47:55","slug":"working-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/22\/working-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Working at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Petai is a Malaysian gem by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8386711748\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8357\/8386711748_3e892d11e5_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"Petai is a Malaysian gem\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed working at home. It wasn&#8217;t until a few years ago that I got myself an office. I still don&#8217;t use the office that much, with the exception for storage. I try to check in from time-to-time since I do have a room there, but I&#8217;m still largely a mobile worker.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m sitting in my parents house and can hear extreme drilling from a house renovating nearby.<\/p>\n<p>In offices, you can&#8217;t do drilling\/renovation works until the evening and most likely its usually only on weekends. At homes, you can&#8217;t do drilling\/renovation works unless its confined between the 8am-5pm timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, home renovations tend to be extensive. Imagine working from home and listening to drilling\/knocking\/banging for about six months?<\/p>\n<p>As a proponent of using Bose noise canceling headphones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0054JJ0QW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0054JJ0QW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=colincharles-20\">Bose QC-15<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0054JJ0QW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>), I can assure you it doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Working%20at%20home&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F22%2Fworking-at-home&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It wasn&#8217;t until a few years ago that I got myself an office. I still don&#8217;t use the office that much, with the exception for storage. I try to check in from time-to-time since I do have a room there, but I&#8217;m still largely a mobile worker. Today, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Working%20at%20home&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F22%2Fworking-at-home&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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