Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!sommers@njin.rutgers.edu From: sommers@njin.rutgers.edu (Mamaliz @ The Soup Kitchen) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Working at Home Message-ID: <11837@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 08:01:14 GMT References: <11232@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11304@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11537@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The NJ Home for Perverted Hackers Lines: 42 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu > You have the exact opposite problem, your distractions are at home, > mine are at the office. > -Ron > [I wouldn't be surprised if this was gender-related and/or related > to whether or not you have a family. TR] Well, Ron's case at least is not gender related, or related to whether he has a family. ( While he is working at home, my partner and I are also working at home (we just started a small consulting firm/software house) and there are usually one or two other people working at home and often two kids running around the house. I have no choice but to work at home (I have some strange disabilities) and so we bought our house KNOWING it was going to double as an office. Three rooms in the house are devoted to WORK (for 4 working adults). We have 10 phone lines. N modems including 2 2400's and Ron's 9600. A bunch of computers, most donated by employers who know we work better from home. When a member of our household is in one of the home offices (one is mine, the other two are split up) they are undisturbable. When they leave their office they are reasonably fair game. The children (2 and 6) have a computer at home, and probably watch more Sesame Street then is good for them. They are pretty good about not interupting work, and never go into the main office unless an adult invites them in. They have also become surprisingly computer literate for their ages. Housework is done during what other people would consider coffee breaks (i.e. when if you look at that piece of code one more time you will scream). Dinner has recently become iffy, as I have a deadline and I am chief cook...but we expect that we will finally come to a meeting of the minds on that. The important thing about working at home is setting rules. We have been doing it for at least 3 years now (although Ron goes into work daily, I never go near an official office, and mg and rehmi work about 50/50 home and office). Things change, but we like it this way. liz