I had a day out of our Redcar office on Thursday. With two morning meetings, one in Stockton and one in Middlesbrough, plus an afternoon meeting in Marton it seemed crazy to travel over to Redcar in-between meetings when I live in Middlesbrough within walking distance of the final meeting. So after the first two meetings I worked from home, somewhat like my pre-limited company, sole trader days.
There are big advantages to working from home. If, unlike Tad Web Solutions, you are a one-man band then there's a big saving on rent. You can sit around looking scruffy, the travel to the office is very short, you can play music as loud as you want and you you don't have to be polite to other people (yes I can be a grumpy bum).
But Thursday brought back memories of the downside and the reasons why I got office space in the early days of the company even though there was only me in it. I love cricket and there was a test match on. I'll often listen to the great institution that is Test Match Special whilst I'm in the office and it doesn't really affect my work. But at home we have Sky Sports who, adverts excluded, do have a cracking team and coverage of test cricket. So whilst I had my lunch I watched a good hour of cricket and I normally don't have an hour for lunch (more like 10 mins). I did manage to turn it off for the afternoon and crack on with some work but I also know that if I still worked from home and the last day of the test was close then I would be watching. In such situations I'm disciplined enough to go to the office and rely on TMS but not if there's a Sky Sports enabled TV in the room.
Well better crack on today (Saturday) as I've got some work to fit in and there's test match and Heineken Cup Final today.
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