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Work At Home For Fun & Profit


Times-Standard:

It ain’t easy to be a telecommuter. Some people dream of severing the tether to their desk and long for the opportunity to work at home. They see adventure, freedom and personal control versus the commute, oppression and lack of control that sometimes goes with a show-up job.

You need a dedicated desk, file cans, desktop computer, printer, productivity software and back-up plans should computers or printers go haywire. I consider a dedicated work space as part of the hardware test because working at your dining room table may be fine to pay bills, but it isn’t cut out for putting in a full day at the office.

If you have attention deficiency, are easily distracted or need a taskmaster to closely supervise you and kick you in the butt to get started, fugedaboudit (another technical term). Your personal bandwidth should include the ability to self start, concentrate and follow through. Speaking of bandwidth, the kind that gives you high speed access to the Internet is usually another must for effective tele-work.

Unless you are writing software code, mapping the human genome or some other equally technical task, you will likely need to interact with customers, supervisors, employees or others to do your job. You will need to figure out how best to do this. It may mean occasional face-to-face contact, and other times it may be OK to use telecommunications such as audio teleconferencing, video conferencing, e-mail or Web meetings.

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