From: utzoo!decvax!duke!dennis Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Working at home Article-I.D.: duke.2370 Posted: Fri Jul 30 18:09:25 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 05:06:34 1982 I've been working at home for several months now, not because of any management program, but because office space around here is pretty tight, and the air conditioning at the office has been notably absent. I'm involved with a fairly large project using the IBM PC, and have one at home with all the goodies I need to work. I have no such regularly structured hours for it, as Will's prople do, and I only show up at my boss's office when there's a meeting or some such that demands my presence. All in all, I regard it as a very positive thing; I can keep my own hours, and can easily stop work and watch Star Trek (twice a day here) or M*A*S*H (four times a day, plus prime time) (no, I don't watch them ALL). Since it's all standalone (except for reading my mail and news via a terminal program that was my first effort, IBM's offering being worthless), I don't even need a dedicated phone line. Also, I've recently gotten married, and working at home enables me to be with my wife all day; we get along well being together all the time. The space requirements at home are not great; I have a desk covered with hardware and printouts, and a printer on a small table next to the desk, and a bookshelf filled with those damned IBM PC manuals (at last count, 15 of them). I'm on a monthly wage (ie, no time cards), and my paycheck is deposited directly to my bank, so those things don't require me to go to the office. I've always been a loner as a programmer; the couple of times I entered into a team programming project, I got too irritated with the other members to work easily with them (I refuse to allocate blame; I know I'm pretty fussy about things that may or may not matter). I heartily recommend it, and hope I can continue to work in this way.