working from home

[ShawnD64]

I think I would really like to work from home, but do not know which avenue to take. I love an unstructured life, and just being home during the week and just going out for a run when the roads are quiet is very peacefull to me, and I wish I could be away from the structured life of a 9-5 office job... I was a computer science major and now I work in IT. I was thinking about getting into web design and trying to get some jobs on the side to do at night ect, and see where that goes...

anyone have any ideas?? obvioulsy their are problems such as benifits ect... but i would love to be on my own....

[anonin]

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anyone have any ideas?? obvioulsy their are problems such as benifits ect... but i would love to be on my own....

start your own music label

[threehills]

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Become a web cam girl....errr guy.

[picklemonkey]

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just get in with a company that doesn't require you be in the office to work. I currently don't work from home often, but expect to be working from home 60% of the time within the next 3-4 months

[Bryanw24]

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please don't post pictures on ms though

[anonin]

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its always been a dream of mine to work from home and make $5000 an hour making pictures in microsoft paint all day

[ShawnD64]

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start your own music label

that would be great
but i want to be able to make a pretty high salary some day (and that would have to be NOT ripping people off or selling shite) so starting a label is out.

i like pickles way of working from home, but ideally i would be my own boss. of course most people want this, and not everyone can

[palmer]

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I work from home right now on contract from San Jose in addition to working for myself on different projects each week. I do a lot of design work for personal clients then a lot of specialty work out on contracts, keying, compositing, 3d modeling, particle effects, etc... Its dope. I have freedom to do whatever I want, when I want. I mean... I have deadlines to hit but on a day to day basis its wide open. I get up about 7am everyday. Eat breakfast out on the deck. Answer emails for a few hours and take care of all the logistical shit. Then I take an hour and run, ride, or workout. Come back put in some work till 6 or 7 and call it day. Right now its raining so this is my midday break.

[speciale]

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move into your work and call it home.

[KinKyJ]

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I work from home right now on contract from San Jose in addition to working for myself on different projects each week. I do a lot of design work for personal clients then a lot of specialty work out on contracts, keying, compositing, 3d modeling, particle effects, etc... Its dope. I have freedom to do whatever I want, when I want. I mean... I have deadlines to hit but on a day to day basis its wide open. I get up about 7am everyday. Eat breakfast out on the deck. Answer emails for a few hours and take care of all the logistical shit. Then I take an hour and run, ride, or workout. Come back put in some work till 6 or 7 and call it day. Right now its raining so this is my midday break.

How do you deal with having no colleagues anymore?

I used to work as an employee before I started running my own show and the colleague contact is something I miss a lot. Even when I work together with employees of my clients on projects, I have to treat them as clients too (marketing you know). Same goes for the people who work for me. Ok, I sometimes make a joke or talk about trivial shit like sports 'n' stuff, but there's always a distance you keep/feel that wasn't there when you were "on the same level" with the others...

For me that's the biggest disadvantage of going solo.

[ShawnD64]

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I work from home right now on contract from San Jose in addition to working for myself on different projects each week. I do a lot of design work for personal clients then a lot of specialty work out on contracts, keying, compositing, 3d modeling, particle effects, etc... Its dope. I have freedom to do whatever I want, when I want. I mean... I have deadlines to hit but on a day to day basis its wide open. I get up about 7am everyday. Eat breakfast out on the deck. Answer emails for a few hours and take care of all the logistical shit. Then I take an hour and run, ride, or workout. Come back put in some work till 6 or 7 and call it day. Right now its raining so this is my midday break.

you just described my ideal day. i am going to hammer away at web design in aspirations of living that way. i have little to no experience with web design, but i will use my programming back ground to get off the ground. you seem to be more into design, but do you have any advice for me

[thesightless]

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umm. its tough to start as might be impossible as you are probably in your low 20's/

for one, you obviously need a few grand to start your business, getting paid might not happen for a few weeks and you should get separate computers, phone lines, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, get insured for the business to sheild your home. also, the costs of obtaining a business liscence is a few hundred bucks easy. AND you need to open a corporation and use the appropriate venues (CPA/ Attorney)

i work from home a lot, and sometimes leave the office at lunch to work at home. i find it more enjoyble, as you get music, tv, interweb. but you need to discipline yourself to be able to get up at 7, get shit done and budget your time.

[jeffrey collins]

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you could always get into consulting. i hear that's a really great way to make a lot of $$ while being your own boss.

[jeffrey collins]

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thesightless...how did you become a CPA? or TAX man, as we have recently been hearing about.

[thesightless]

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umm, i went to college (UMASS and hofstra) for awhile. sat for the CPA, adn viola.

add in a few years of continuing education