Stay At Home Work Have You Feeling
A Bit Lonely?
By Charles Fuchs
When you stay at home and work, either at a stay at home job or at a
home based business, it�s easy to start feeling isolated and lonely. This
is especially true if you worked in a large company with a lot of people
before you decided to stay at home and work. It really is possible to go
days without seeing anyone but family members when you work at a stay at
home job or home based business. After a while, the isolation can get to
you and make you long for the old days, as bad as they were.
So it�s important to take breaks from your stay at home work or home
based business and find opportunities to interact with people. One of the
best ways to avoid feeling lonely and isolated in your stay at home job
is to join a professional group in your area. Your local Chamber of Commerce
is a good organization to join and take part in. Not only will the meetings
give you the chance to be with other people, they can also be a great way
to network your home based business or to pick up projects for your stay
at home job. Best of all, you�ll be able to spend time with people who
also have small businesses, many of them home based businesses, and you�ll
be able to pick up some great ideas for your home based business.
Another strategy for coping with the loneliness that goes along with
a stay at home job or home based business is to find other people in your
area who are also working at stay at home jobs or home based businesses.
You probably already know many people who are in similar shoes. They�d
love to get together and shake off the stay at home loneliness for a couple
of yours. Get in touch with them and see if you can�t set up a once-a-week
breakfast. Again, this will give you the chance to talk with people about
stay at home job and home based business issues. You�ll get a lot of good
ideas and maybe even be able to co-op some work for your home based business
of stay at home job service.
And here�s another thing you can do to beat the home based business
and stay at home job �lonelies��join your local Y. Too often stay at home
workers and home based business owners spend way too much time at their
desks, staring at the computer screen. You need to have some exercise.
And one of the advantages of having a stay at home job or home based business
is that you can�or should be able to!�make your own schedule, at least
to some degree. Yes, you have to met your stay at home job and home based
business deadlines, but you can plan to spend time a little time exercising
at the Y several morning or afternoons a week. Going to the Y has the advantage
of letting you be with people who are NOT connected with your stay at home
job or home based business. Because while it is a good to be with home
based businesspeople and stay at home workers sometimes, you also need
to be with people who aren�t so that you can forget about your business
and stay at home work some too. It�s too easy to let your stay at home
work take over your life. So join the Y and meet all kinds of people. You�ll
find you go back to your home based business office refreshed and ready
to go to work.
Also, take advantage of email. When you stay at home and work or have
a home based business, you�re likely to deal with many people just like
you who are staying at home to work or running their own home based business.
It�s easy to forget, though, that they are people who get lonely too. So
make some online friends. You�ll be amazed at how much less lonely you�ll
feel in your stay at home job or home based business just by doing this
one thing.
Finally, if your stay at home job or home based business really has
you feeling lonely and blue, and you�re yearning for the old 9-to-5 cubicle
you once had, stop and think for a minute. Were those many conversations
you had with co-workers really all that great? Did you actually want to
hear about Sally�s gall bladder operation or about Steve�s son�s grand
slam hit or Gary�s marital problems? Didn�t think so. And now your stay
at home job or home based business office looks better than ever, doesn�t
it? |
