After 6 years plus of working from home, I am thinking I have probably developed a mild case of agrophobia... well, okay not really... I don't fear leaving the house... but often times I just don't do it.
There are many weeks (Monday thru Friday) where probably the furtherest I venture outside the house is to cross the street to get the mail (good thing they don't deliver it to the door in our neighborhood!)...
So what the heck am I talking about?! Well, in two weeks I'll be back East visiting the parents and in times like this is where I have noticed increased anxiety over the past few years. Now I get along with my family just fine, so I am not nervous or stressy about seeing them (quite the opposite)... but I tend to worry about everything prior to leaving... particularly the pets who I pretty much cater to their every whim during the day. Although he is joining me at the end of my stay, I am assuming Todd will be fine... if anything, I am sure he will relish some very rare "alone time" in the house for a couple of days.
So I guess it is just a tad egocentric... that somehow all that goes on around here depends on my presence... but then there is also work that gets me anxious... my business partner will have to cover my "increasing by the day" workload (why does it always seem to get crazy busy before vacations?!).
So while I am fine once I get where I am going... I don't like leaving.
That said, I could not fathom going back to work in a "real" office. While the social interaction is great and it does require leaving the house... there are just too many positives of working from home.
I worked at home for 5 years, and while I liked it, the whole experience did get scary at times. The morning radio personalities became my "friends". I followed what was going on with them every day. It got really weird. But that was my version of the water cooler -- they were the only people talking to me! :-)
Posted by: Atlanta Todd | Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 01:56 PM