Blogging Vs a Daytime Job

You build your résumé, you go for several interviews, you get a call back and congratulations, you have just gotten the job that you’ve been hoping you’d get. It’s now your first day. You grab that new suit and tie and sit in the worst rush hour traffic that you’ve ever been a part of. You finally get to the office and get to see your new cubicle. Just like all the others in the office and it looks like you have become yet another rat in the trap of life. It doesn’t take long to have your desk completely covered with paperwork of reports and documents that need to be processed yesterday. You think back and remember the day when you first started at your job. You remember how happy and excited you were thinking that this was the “new” you, and that you were really going to move up in the world. But what actually happened is you have fallen into a rut. This rut can keep you from using your whole potential and becoming what you wanted to become.

You have wanted to work for yourself for a long time. But how can you make that happen? There are many ways of making things happen. As long as you have the willpower and the attitude to move forward in your life and make a change happen, you can make anything happen in your life. So how do you go from the daily grind 9-5 to waking up at a leisurely hour and working in your p.j.’s if you want? Having an office at home does take some discipline. Separating your work life from your home life does take an adjustment period when you first start doing it. You may even want to keep your daytime hours like you had when you were in an office until you can grasp a really good ideal schedule between work and home. Because your work and home will be within the same space, taking the time to create your own “office” will be a necessity.

Creating your office space is something that can be difficult. On your days off you will want to stay out of that area if possible to keep that distance between work and home. On the days you are working, it is easy to become distracted. Either by kids, the phone, friends or your favorite daytime television show. It is best to set your recorder to record your favorite shows, shut the ringer off on your phone and allow your answering machine to pick up your calls and if possible, see if you can still have your children in a daycare setting. That way you can have as little distractions as possible.

By using these tips above you will see that moving from a work place environment to a home environment can be a fairly easy transition, as long as you have all of the positive environment changes in place!