The Trip To The Office Is Mental One
Like many moms, Nichica Smith starts her day before dawn.
She helps her husband get ready and out the door early for his commute to San Francisco. She makes her three children breakfast and sends them across the street to Bethany Elementary School with sack lunches.
Then, her workday begins — in her kitchen, which is transformed from her family’s noisy abode into an office for Sarah Coventry, the jewelry company Smith works for as an independent consultant. She turns on classical music, sets her laptop on the kitchen island, attaches her Bluetooth headset to her ear and gets to work — sometimes still in her bathrobe.
Working out of the home has become more acceptable thanks to technology, said Shelley Puentes, who started the Mountain House Networking Group 2½ years ago.
Some start home-based businesses from scratch, while others telecommute — they work for a company from home via the Internet.
“In the past, people would say, ‘I’m working from home, wink wink,’” said Puentes, 36, who has worked out of her house as a certified mortgage planning specialist with Pacific Mortgage Consultants the past five years.
Not so now. Without the distractions of coworkers, she said, she gets more done at home.
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