I can barely stand it today. The absolute, at times, maddening, loneliness of working from home, by myself, day-after-every-other day.
Most days I am happy to walk down to my office and savor the quiet. The kids are at preschool, husband is at the office, and not a sound can be heard apart from a soft hum from my fireplace. Most days this is just fine with me. I like myself. I like being by myself. But then loneliness peeks his pesky head around the door and starts putting bothersome thoughts in my head.
When is the last time you ate lunch with someone?
Don’t you miss actually talking to people during the week??
Aren’t you worried you’ll lose your ability to communicate and have to resort to grunts and signs???
Do you know anything at all that is going on outside your little.. insular.. office.. BUBBLE????
AAHHH! I am lonely. Working from home can take its toll. How much can one person stand being alone? I don’t even have conference calls this week.
Time to get out in the real world and make some telecommuting friends–maybe we could meet for lunch once a week, in person, that is.
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Hi, Michele!
Stumbled across your website and was thrilled to see your face when I linked over to your home blog! Almost thirteen years?!?!?!?
I’ve been a full-time telecommuter as well for the past five years and your sentiments in this post echo my thoughts exactly when explaining to other that working from home isn’t as easy as it sounds. Some days I simply crave a little human contact, especially those weeks when my husband is out of town for work.
Thanks for sharing so much of yourself with your fellow telecommuters…and it’s wonderful to be able to catch up with you a bit!
Take care,
Neda
p.s. – *love* my Palm Pre…hold out if you can. ;^)
Neda. Hello! It’s so nice to have other telecommuters in my midst.
Sometimes I feel completely alone. Please drop a line about your work anytime. Would love to hear about it.
P.S. I broke down and bought a used blackberry (for now…)