When you've got the blues working at home

Working at home seems awesome I haven’t had the pleasure although it has been an interest. As a full time student my best work is in a safe and quiet place. This often means my bed or couch with a throw over my legs. But the down sides for me have been procrastination in getting up or over eating when bored or needing an alternative mental stimulus. Also long term time periods alone gives me the desert island feeling; like when am I going to hear another voice beside my thoughts. I begin to evaluate my life waaaay too much like; grace why haven’t already owned your own business, is that for you or are we really the adult we should be? Kids? No I don’t think I’m ready, or am I avoiding it….. the mind runs when you do not have a changing scene or people around you. I remedy the ‘work at home blues’ by getting up early to exercise, plan the tasks I need to complete and would enjoy doing that day. What you need to keep focused but not insane is worth it if it is #healthy . Changing scene or healthy interactions with people give perspective and offer you to think on a realistic scale.

Click on the Photo for an article (penny hoarder) of the links of loneliness to health concerns and the importance of being communal.

#loneliness #workathome

Work flexibility

Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America, said that in the 1990s and early 2000s, flexibility was seen as an accommodation for women, mothers and caregivers — a viewpoint that still exists today.

“That’s led to a real sense of stigma around flexibility — that lesser workers will take it, or that somehow flexibility means less work or that you’re less committed,” she said.

Fortunately, the tides are changing as others start advocating for flexible work options.

“Millennials — both men and women — [are] saying that they want to have full, meaningful lives and full, meaningful careers and being adamant about getting them,” Schulte said.

#flexibility #remote #workathome