Freelancing from Home
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- hektor911
For you freelancing from home, what do you do not to go crazy. Lately I've been going out of mind just being inside. I do ride my bike daily for about 18 miles, but its not been working lately. I even took away my girlfriend's pet (a chihuahua) to see if it make a difference, but the damn dog just sleeps all the time, I guess she is too old.
Any of you in the same situation?
- whhipp0
yes.
- whhipp0
but it's monospace that really makes me cray.
- hahahahahektor911
- when that happens, just pray to jesusmonospaced
- haha yep. sounds good. was kidding of course ;Pwhhipp
- pango0
get a cat. good distraction. but i'm about to strangle that sonavabitch! it's really being annoying...
call up your friend who you haven't meet for a while.
check out events... plan things... go party, go networking.
organize your file... then re organize your file. rearrange your room (i'm done that a dosen't time now. i'ma fucking OCD). clean all your equipments and do maintenance . crack open your computer and dust it. make some seasonal cards and send them to your family and clients let them know you are still alive.
- e-wo0
Bi-monthly vision quest.
- letterhead0
get a drum machine/sampler and bang out some loud patterns when you get antsy. Then get back to work, slacker
- hektor9110
Sometimes it bothers me that there are no quick updates on QBN.
Horrible guys... keep it up
- pango0
go fuck a bitch... and ruin somebody's marriage.
- chrisRG0
Do not eat at home.
Everyday I go out to have lunch and to have a coffee.
- doesnotexist0
Museums. Drinking.
- vaxorcist0
get up every 22 minutes.... walk around even if it's just around the block... no matter how cold outside.
- ukit20
subcontract your work out and go on vacation
- < thiswhatthefunk
- i heard asia has good designers.hektor911
- bjladams0
before we got the office, and it was just my partner and i working from our kitchen tables- we'd start meeting with other freelancers every couple of days to critique each others work. gave me a lot more motivation to work efficiently during the day, and put me in front of another person outside just a social setting.
competition does good things for me. plus, it gave me tighter deadlines and a second opinion.
- doesnotexist0
find a we work building or similar
- share space / office.
but i never like the idea to pay for something i could live with out.pango
- share space / office.
- ukit20
Not the worst problem to have. Imagine telling someone 100 years ago working in a factory that your worst problem was that you had to work from home and didn't know what to do with your free time.
- Miguex0
I've been doing since 2006 fulltime.
The change of environment helps me go into productive move.
If you stay inside its boring. So whenever I can I work from a coffee shop, and switch them up too, I get lunch there and a cup of tea, headphones on and I'm in the zone.Bonus points if the place has no internet connection, this way you get less distracted.
- Dude, we gotta plan a coffee shop meet up sometime!nocomply
- nocomply0
I have the same problem. The isolation from human contact is probably the hardest part, because even if you go out to work at a coffee shop or grab lunch you're never really interacting with anyone.
It can be tough sometimes. Walking around the house or going on a quick coffee run doesn't really help. That just becomes part of the routine.
I think the key is to break that routine somehow. Like someone mentioned above, meet a friend that you haven't seen in a while for lunch, or find a local pool and go for a swim in the morning. Or go on a bike ride if you don't often do that. I've found that doing something that's not "normal" improves my attitude for the rest of the day.
- Example: I'm actually posting this from my friend's studio, which he graciously allows me to work out of sometimes.nocomply
- JackRyan0
Set up some 'mastur-dates' light candles, drink some wine...