I work from home mainly and the freedom is a big plus as well as the saved money on commutes.
If anyone else is thinking of doing this though I would recommend making sure you have a room somewhere that you can use almost exclusively for work.
I live in a small house and share with people who are unemployed and since my bedroom is not big enough to fit a desk and a computer I end up having to work in what is basically a communal area of the house and also on the path to the kitchen.
We have a sort of agreement that they will try and give me some space but having people walking to and fro behind me whenever they need to get to the kitchen or coming through 'just to quickly ask me something' is cancer to productivity since they will always interrupt you when your in 'the zone', they don't really understand that 10 seconds of disturbance probably costs me 20 minutes of work on average.
This can also put stresses on your personal relationships since it's easy to be pretty short with people when they disturb you.
If anyone else is thinking of doing this though I would recommend making sure you have a room somewhere that you can use almost exclusively for work.
I live in a small house and share with people who are unemployed and since my bedroom is not big enough to fit a desk and a computer I end up having to work in what is basically a communal area of the house and also on the path to the kitchen.
We have a sort of agreement that they will try and give me some space but having people walking to and fro behind me whenever they need to get to the kitchen or coming through 'just to quickly ask me something' is cancer to productivity since they will always interrupt you when your in 'the zone', they don't really understand that 10 seconds of disturbance probably costs me 20 minutes of work on average.
This can also put stresses on your personal relationships since it's easy to be pretty short with people when they disturb you.