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Thoughts on Work - Life Balance
July 18th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Digital Nomads, Links, Work 2.0 |
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I can definitely relate to this post by Jay Fleischman - I Do Not Have A Home Office. I generally work at any hour, in whatever location I happen to be in. As long as I have my bag of tricks and a place to sit, I can do something for work: read a book for a review, write a post or two, and if I have the internet I can of course hit Twitter or read my RSS Feeds.
This is what Jay says about offices and self-employment:
We choose to have an office so that we may have a work-life balance. But self-employed professionals and knowledge workers do not have a work-life balance; their work is their life, and their life is a part of their work. It’s like saying you have an “eating-digesting balance;” sometimes you eat, sometimes you digest. but it’s all part of the same organic whole, the yin-yang that makes up who you are.
Richard Kershaw has some thoughts on this topic as well, including a list of the tools and methods that he employs when going mobile:
Like many self-employed geeks, working remotely is pretty straightforward. Forgive the cliche: the hard part is deciding to do it. …Since I arrived in Berlin last week, I thought I’d give the lowdown on my mobile office.
Do you work from home, or a “mobile” location? Are you non-virtual too?
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
In this age of outsourcing and virtual assistants, boosting productivity comes only if we can change the way are used to functioning and start thinking out of the box. Another article on boosting productivity through outsourcing at http://outsorcerer.com/blog/?p=40
July 21st, 2008 at 5:16 am
>>Thank you for that link Ishani, there is some very useful info there.