[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Working from home is a SKILL, Cherie! I get as much done at home as I do in the office but you work differently at home. You have to, IMO. You can work at a steady pace in an office environment, chatting to coworkers etc. and the time passes quite quickly... If you try to do that at home you'll go mad in a week.

SO... take a deep breath, focus like a jedi, and absolutely hammer out an hour+ worth of work in 15 to 20 minutes and then watch telly for 40 . That's my top tip.

I've had to give these tips to coworkers (and other friends) currently working from home who normally are 100% office based because they were all becoming utterly miserable.

... I may have downplayed the "time balance" for my own coworkers of course. I said take a 20 min break every hour. Not 20 mins of work every hour

depends on your workload I can't get my work done in an hour, I nearly always work a little bit over, but then I do break on TiBB and have cups of tea and a breather from the PC and take my time...

I did have another freelance job where I was paid for 15 hours a week but worked about 3, my son worked out I earned about 170.00 a hour on that one alas it is no more

I don't know why you are telling me, I have worked from home for 20 years while you have done 6 months, don't try to teach grandma to suck eggs