Dec/090
Work from home projects
An article on Work from home projects
I’ll be honest – in the first few weeks after I made the transition from “going to work” to “working from home,” I didn’t get much accomplished. A good friend took me to the office. So, with a little help from a very organized friend, I got my act together and started learning how to stay focused, organize my work space and time, and still enjoy the perks of working from home… Although I had already made a budget and tried to get a feel for how my finances would change after I left the comfort of a bi-monthly paycheck, I hadn’t really sat down and anticipated how much time I would need to set aside for sending out queries, making contacts and interacting with editors and clients. I cleaned my closets and refrigerator and sort work from home projects
ed papers and even read a couple books I’d been putting off for months. I don’t think I was alone in my fantasy that I would sit comfortably with my notebook or sipping coffee at my computer and the money would just roll in (or someone would slide it under my front door.) The reality was that I needed to coordinate my time and allow for creative work, and the business side of things if I was to truly make things work. I made up my mind to purchase a new computer and office equipment (I had been using the family computer) but I needed encouragement and moral support. Eventually, I realized that if I kept things up as they were, I’d soon be knocking on the door of the nearest temp agency. That led me to the need to make sure I had adequate work space. Well, I got