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Moving the office...
Oct. 17th, 2005 05:29 pmIf I were smart, I'd move the office out of the house completely. That's the way it was the first year we were in Pagosa, and I liked it that way. Then we got this house, and it made no financial sense to spend money on office rent when there was this huge room in the basement.
As far as I can tell, the main plus of a home office is financial: you don't have to shell out mazuma for space. Too, if there are no urgent work issues to deal with, you can take care of household affairs, and you can switch from being a homebody to a telecommuter in a flash. Having a home office also has its drawbacks, though, the main one being the ease with which you can turn into a workaholic and lose track of time while working on a project.
Be the pros and cons as it may, I've had my office in the basement pretty much ever since moving into the house. Yesterday, Galina made a hard charge for me to move my office upstairs, into the smallest of the three bedrooms on the first floor.
I don't know what appealed to me to go along with the idea. Perhaps it was the opportunity of "starting with a new slate," but I also realized I could set things up so that my computers were actually in the adjoining room, giving me a quiet workplace for the first time in many moons. The only major down side so far is the lack of a phone jack, which would allow me to move my DSL upstairs and get my desktops (Windows and Linux) on the Internet. (Right now, my VAIO is hooked in to my wireless router downstairs, which is sitting at the other end of a long Cat-5 cable from the modem.)
I haven't moved everything that was downstairs, only my desk, reference desk with file cabinets, and the piece of furniture that's supposed to be used to store and display china, but which I use as a bookshelf and small item storage facility. I plan to move stuff relatively slowly over the next few days, but would like to get the "infrastructure" (jacks, power strips, and so on) completed as soon as possible.
I had hoped that my decision to move stuff around would have moved a client to call with a huge rush job, but only half of that desired effect took place: my Houston client called with a small rush job, which I took care of in my new digs.
I should probably start sorting through the stuff that's to come in the door. I really want to stay neat and organized in here!
Cheers...
As far as I can tell, the main plus of a home office is financial: you don't have to shell out mazuma for space. Too, if there are no urgent work issues to deal with, you can take care of household affairs, and you can switch from being a homebody to a telecommuter in a flash. Having a home office also has its drawbacks, though, the main one being the ease with which you can turn into a workaholic and lose track of time while working on a project.
Be the pros and cons as it may, I've had my office in the basement pretty much ever since moving into the house. Yesterday, Galina made a hard charge for me to move my office upstairs, into the smallest of the three bedrooms on the first floor.
I don't know what appealed to me to go along with the idea. Perhaps it was the opportunity of "starting with a new slate," but I also realized I could set things up so that my computers were actually in the adjoining room, giving me a quiet workplace for the first time in many moons. The only major down side so far is the lack of a phone jack, which would allow me to move my DSL upstairs and get my desktops (Windows and Linux) on the Internet. (Right now, my VAIO is hooked in to my wireless router downstairs, which is sitting at the other end of a long Cat-5 cable from the modem.)
I haven't moved everything that was downstairs, only my desk, reference desk with file cabinets, and the piece of furniture that's supposed to be used to store and display china, but which I use as a bookshelf and small item storage facility. I plan to move stuff relatively slowly over the next few days, but would like to get the "infrastructure" (jacks, power strips, and so on) completed as soon as possible.
I had hoped that my decision to move stuff around would have moved a client to call with a huge rush job, but only half of that desired effect took place: my Houston client called with a small rush job, which I took care of in my new digs.
I should probably start sorting through the stuff that's to come in the door. I really want to stay neat and organized in here!
Cheers...
