House Purchase Advice

[ScottyB]

i could see doing 2-3, but would not want to do 100%. at that point your work and home lives seem to converge.

it can definitely be a slippery slope. i've been working from home entirely since last june (started a business) and can confirm that it can be really tempting to just say F-it if you're having a bad day and walk into the living room and watch a movie. or surf the internet endlessly. or snack on everything. sometimes you can't escape the stress either, because you sleep 20 feet from your office.

if i've learned 2 things, it's to take structured breaks to prevent boredom or stagnant thought (leads to doing the above and blowing hours before you know it) and to make a hard cutoff on when to stop working...otherwise i keep coming back to the computer to tinker with business stuff and don't make time for the wife and I.

i also tried to pull the WFH thing by proposing it to my old boss when i left my last job. he tried to make it work but the company didn't want any of it. My position would have been perfect for it, but they didn't like the precedent it would create. they don't use a WFH system and I would have been the first full timer using it. they pictured all the sudden everyone with a position with any remote possibility of fitting the WFH model suddenly petitioning that they wanted to be at home too, and HR didn't want any part of that. Basically lots of resentment and politics.