Spidra, that sounds amazing.

if the dream includes doing laundry, taking his mom to the hospital, and painting the kitchen between emails and remote logins.

It does, actually. Since these are things that need to be done anyway, right? He's not having to take time off, or lose as much sleep as he might otherwise, to get them done.

I'd love to work from home once a week. I'm disappointed that we haven't gotten to the place where location is more transparent.

I can't bitch too hard--when the migraines were really bad I worked from home about once a week, and even worked from the ER. But those are emergency, cannot come in days. I mean, just regularly.

Spidra, that sounds amazing.

Yup. Wish I could get a gig like that. It would have to be something I'm motivated to do, though. I'm having trouble racking up enough hours in my current part-time telecommute gig because it's stuff that's demanding *and* boring. So I've found it really hard to be disciplined about putting in the hours.

I'm sorry your employer isn't cutting you slack on that. I don't know how you migraine-sufferers do it. Really, I don't. And I think it sounds like a debilitating enough condition that telecommuting should be part of ADA accommodation.

Timelies all!

The plumber has been here, and everything is fixed. Yay!(Had to take a cold shower this morning. Not fun)

Alas, I am in a profession where telecommuting is not an option.

It does irk me that people (The Man) are still so sold on the 9-5 sit-at-a-desk thing. I know there are a ton of jobs that require common hours, and face time, and, of course, a lot of non-desk jobs are location-dependent, but there are a ton of jobs that aren't. If I have X work that needs to be done by Friday, why does it matter so much when and where I do it? Stupid.

I could totally work at home a day a week. But, there's no real advantage for anybody but me. Which is fine :)

Generally my ability to concentrate and do good graphics work is a casualty of migraines before my ability to actually make the drive in to work, so nothing gets done from home on a sick day aside from a few answered questions via phone.

Today while running work errands I saw the first hot shirtless car washer of the season. Spring is officially here!

I'd rather have more flex time and still be in the office. There are definitely days I'd be happier working noon to 8 or whatever, but I know working from home regularly would be a recipe for disaster for me.

In bad-tv news (see how I can't work from home??), some lady on Dr. Phil just said, "I want people to literally open their hearts." Um, I really hope you don't mean that literally, lady.

It does, actually. Since these are things that need to be done anyway, right? He's not having to take time off, or lose as much sleep as he might otherwise, to get them done.

It's true. Our lives would be much crazier if he couldn't stay home.

Yet, outside Polgara or people who work from a home office primarily, I just never encounter folks even in IT who get to take advantage of the technology.

If it's any consolation, my current circumstance is unusual. My great-grandboss has something against telecommuting, and we wouldn't be doing it for the next two weeks if he could've pulled a spare office out of his ass while they renovate ours. As it is, he found an office for my grandboss and the intern, just not for the rest of us. We're hoping we can prove how productive we can be from home and therefore show that we can be trusted to do it more regularly. What's particularly annoying is that they're renovating our office so that it fits twice as many people because there are space issues, issues they wouldn't have if they'd just allow the WEB DEPARTMENT--people whose very livelihood it is to work online--to telecommute.

My PC is in a different room from my TV, which helps. I can watch TV on it, but there's no TV hookup. I can check and answer mail from in front of the TV, but that's about it.

My commute is an unevenly distributed couple of hours a day. Flex time isn't as appealing to me as just not being in my damned car.

Sleeping helps make my migraines more tolerable, so napping at the drop of a hat (instead of uncomfortably, after a trek to my car) can give me back bits of the day. Also, sometimes I have migraines without pain, but with dizziness, so driving is impossible, but working (slowly) may be.

Plus...conference calls. Who cares where I am?