I am thinking about making a life change- one that I would consider to be substantial life change. Here is what I am thinking.
Pro's:
- I could save about 2k a year in reimbursed internet, phone and eating from home savings. I can't quantify the savings to work clothing, but the fact that yoga pants would be the norm is pretty sweet.
- I would be able to do some of the things by day that are challenging to get done. Plumbers, electricians etc.
- My commute would be five minutes. brush teeth, walk downstairs. In the winter, glorious!
- My team is remote anyway so I have limited opportunities for networking as is and my closest support teams office out of a different building so I am often in face to face meetings at another campus.(which is closer to my ome)
- I travel about 25% of the time so I would still get some good social dynamics from that.
- I could use my conference call time better. I am often on mute during conference calls, what if I could walk on my treadmill during this time?
- I was starting to be concerned about our work dynamics as a family already. . . Matt and I both have supersized jobs (+40 hours a week) and I don't have a huge desire to grow my career significantly during this time. Would this be a good step toward moderation?
- I had a lot of back pain with my last pregnancy in the third trimester and found working from home nice in that I could change positions frequently without people staring. Laying in a cubicle isn't usually apropos.
- We are moving offices shortly and the new office is less than stellar and further away from home.
- People love it supposedly.
- Would I get lonely? I could potentially have several days in a row where I don't leave the house. That sounds pleasant with the season of SAD upon us. I have a history of anxiety/ depression. . . something that I have pretty under control right now- but is it worth tempting fate?
- My home office currently looks like this: sight for sore eyes. Not a huge improvement over the outdated office that I am supposed to be moving into.
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That wall is cork. . . yep. yuck |
- Would I be able to shut down work when I need to? I am a bit of a natural work-a-holic. . .would the lure of the home office be too much?
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