| Sidor om ämnet: [1 2] > | Poll: Do you work at home? Trådens avsändare: ProZ.com Staff
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| | Nicole Schnell 
USA
Local time: 05:11
Engelska till Tyska
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In memoriam | No. I live in my office. | Jan 9, 2012 |
Don't ask me why - I have become allergic to the phrase "working from home". Sounds like a house wife making some money on the side by stuffing envelopes or baking cookies.
No one who has ever worked in this profession - more than full-time and with all the times-zones involved can ever imagine that your home stops being your home as soon as you work there. You can never, ever go home from work and close the door behind you.
We moved into a larger house two years ago. ... See more Don't ask me why - I have become allergic to the phrase "working from home". Sounds like a house wife making some money on the side by stuffing envelopes or baking cookies.
No one who has ever worked in this profession - more than full-time and with all the times-zones involved can ever imagine that your home stops being your home as soon as you work there. You can never, ever go home from work and close the door behind you.
We moved into a larger house two years ago. Office space is taking up three rooms by now. Telephones everywhere. Wireless network seeping through the walls 24/7. I don't know if this is healthy. Every corner of the house screams: Work! Work! There is no privacy as long as you don't turn off the machines and the phones.
Wow, my grammar sucketh at this time of day. But I won't edit anything. It's 3:20 am and I am at work. At home or at the office?
[Edited at 2012-01-09 11:43 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Susanna Martoni
Italien
Local time: 14:11
Medlem (2009)
Spanska till Italienska
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| Office (dining room) | Jan 9, 2012 |
My office is my dining room and when someone asks me "Where do you work"?, I answer that I work in my own office (which is located where my home is).
I don't work from home: I work in my office and the fact that my office is at home is a natural consequence.
The little desk in the centre of the room is full of Cinderella and Mermaid stuff and also of Translation and Semiotics and Communication texts. But it is OK (till now).
| | | | Thayenga
Tyskland
Local time: 14:11
Medlem (2009)
Engelska till Tyska
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| A combined environment | Jan 9, 2012 |
Nicole Schnell wrote:
Don't ask me why - I have become allergic to the phrase "working from home". Sounds like a house wife making some money on the side by stuffing envelopes or baking cookies.
No one who has ever worked in this profession - more than full-time and with all the times-zones involved can ever imagine that your home stops being your home as soon as you work there. You can never, ever go home from work and close the door behind you.
I couldn't agree more with Nicole.
My home is my office, and my office is my home. The only way these two can be separated is when I close the living room door, because then my office space is "looked out". But that hardly every works.
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neilmac
Spanien
Local time: 14:11
Spanska till Engelska
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| Oleg Osipov
Ryska federationen
Local time: 15:11
Engelska till Ryska
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| Always at home when I am in | Jan 9, 2012 |
A cozy study with everything I need + a sofa.
| | | | reem07
Egypten
Local time: 15:11
Engelska till Arabiska
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| SUCCESS Story | Jan 9, 2012 |
Yes,Thank God.I can be a working Mom and a freelancer!!.
| | | | Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 21:11
Medlem (2011)
Japanska till Engelska
... but there's nothing "homey" with all the associated home distractions - kids and cats crawling around my feet - in my office.
It's a small office/home office without the cubicles but filled with all the paraphernalia needed to run a business - office furniture, bookshelves, storage cabinets, computers, router, hubs and cables, server, network printer/copier/fax, heaps of other hardware, and more importantly, a fridge stuffed full of cold ones to sip back on after a hard day's wo... See more ... but there's nothing "homey" with all the associated home distractions - kids and cats crawling around my feet - in my office.
It's a small office/home office without the cubicles but filled with all the paraphernalia needed to run a business - office furniture, bookshelves, storage cabinets, computers, router, hubs and cables, server, network printer/copier/fax, heaps of other hardware, and more importantly, a fridge stuffed full of cold ones to sip back on after a hard day's work. 
It's my study, my territory and I've rigged it for maximum working comfort.
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| SUCESS Story II | Jan 9, 2012 |
Pacsed - Mom - Housewife - German Teacher - Freelancer.....I am Super Woman in my Super Office (12m2) in my Super House
| | | | Michael Harris
Tyskland
Local time: 14:11
Medlem (2006)
Tyska till Engelska
but in a separate office in the cellar where I have my peace and quite - with daylight windows, so not the dark and cold cellar, but a freindly and warm one.
| | | | Jenn Mercer
USA
Local time: 08:11
Medlem (2009)
Franska till Engelska
| In my happy place | Jan 9, 2012 |
Years ago, working in an insurance company, I would joke with a coworker about going to my "happy place" whenever the latest unworkable edict came down. Now, I work in my home office. Like Michael Harris, mine is the lowest level of the house, but not quite a basement. Outside my window I have a view of a bird (and squirrel) feeder that gets customers all day long. In place of the steel desks and grey cubicles, I have solid wood furniture and a view of my freshwater aquarium. I have added LED li... See more Years ago, working in an insurance company, I would joke with a coworker about going to my "happy place" whenever the latest unworkable edict came down. Now, I work in my home office. Like Michael Harris, mine is the lowest level of the house, but not quite a basement. Outside my window I have a view of a bird (and squirrel) feeder that gets customers all day long. In place of the steel desks and grey cubicles, I have solid wood furniture and a view of my freshwater aquarium. I have added LED lighting and decorated the wood paneling in my own eclectic style. Sometimes, I even have a beer in the afternoons - gasp!
This poll is a good one to remind us all that the work can be hard, but the freelance lifestyle has definite advantages. ▲ Collapse
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in what used to be my daughters old bedroom (by then I had a rented office).
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Chun Un
Macau
Medlem (2007)
Engelska till Kinesiska
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It's my study where I have everything I had when I worked in an office plus a sofa bed where I occasionally sleep. It's heaven!
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I work at a room in my house.
In my house there is a room to sleep, another room for my guest to sleep, and another room to lounge, read and watch TV, another one to cook and dine, and lastly (hooooray) a room where I do my freelance translating works.
Question is where I spend the longest of my any given day? Answer -- the room I mentioned last. This room has bookshelves and daybed, and of course computers that connect me to the world. How wonderful ... See more I work at a room in my house.
In my house there is a room to sleep, another room for my guest to sleep, and another room to lounge, read and watch TV, another one to cook and dine, and lastly (hooooray) a room where I do my freelance translating works.
Question is where I spend the longest of my any given day? Answer -- the room I mentioned last. This room has bookshelves and daybed, and of course computers that connect me to the world. How wonderful ▲ Collapse
| | | | | and I have an outside job | Jan 9, 2012 |
I also work in an office part time so I can eat while waiting to be paid for translation work.
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