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Are You Working Alone?

Remember co-workers? Those annoyingthrough the same thing themselves, and
people who you're forced to share anwill be more than happy to sympathise
office with -- some of them friends, butwith you and offer advice.
most of them insufferable. If you'reThere's only one thing to be careful of,
anything like me, one of reasons forthough: don't let chatting about
starting a home business was to get awayeverything and nothing on the web
from these people. And yet, when you dointerrupt your work. Give yourself a
work at home all day, every day, youcertain amount of time each day to talk
might find that you start to miss thatto your newfound 'colleagues', and don't
kind of companionship, and feel morego over it. You don't want to be sitting
than a little lonely.there pressing 'Refresh' on a long
All Alone...discussion when you should be getting
Picture the scene. You get up forsome work done, do you?
another day of work. Your husband orGet to Know Your Clients.
wife has already left, since they haveHere's a good way to turn your
to get up earlier to commute to theirloneliness into an advantage: make your
job. Your children are at school. Allclients your friends! The customers that
the neighbours are at work. Your housewill be the most loyal to you are the
feels deserted, and your neighbourhoodones that trust you and know you, and
feels like a ghost town.going to meet with them sometimes as a
It's all too easy to become enormouslyfriend can be rewarding on both a
demotivated in this situation, and topersonal and a business level.
begin to feel like your work isAssociations, Groups and Societies.
pointless. Worse, when you get stuck orIf you look, you might be surprised at
something bad happens, you have no-onehow many things there are out there that
to turn to -- at work, you were all inyou could join. Perhaps your area has a
it together, but now it's just you, outHomeworkers' Society, or an association
on your own.for your industry that holds regular
Even if you don't feel like it'smeetings? Go along, and you could find
affecting you, the lack of humansome new friends, as well as some good
interaction could be causing you quite abusiness contacts. Two or three groups
few problems. Ask yourself honestly ifshould be enough.
you've been more irritable than usualGo to a Coffee Place Sometimes.
recently, found yourself lacking inYou've seen those people who seem to be
energy, or felt upset or sad withoutdoing work in Starbucks, right? Well,
being able to figure out the reason why.they've figured out something valuable
If you have, then it could be related to-- being at home alone all day sends you
home-worker loneliness.crazy, and it's nice to get away
The Power of the Web.sometimes and have some coffee while you
Since you've presumably got a computerwork. Over time, you'll even become a
and Internet access on your officeregular, and people there will start
computer, you might find it worthwhilegetting to know you.
to get on a search engine and find a fewUse Your Breaks to Contact People.
forums for your industry, especiallyMost people have a list a mile long of
ones dedicated to people who run homefriends and family that they've been
businesses. You might think what you domeaning to get in touch with for ages,
is too obscure, but it's a big web outbut never seem to have the chance. A
there.great thing to do can be to make a big
Finding friends on web forums can belist of all these people, and then phone
good for replacing the lost interactionor email one of them each week, in one
with co-workers. More than that, it canof your breaks. Not only does this fight
offer you a good outlet for yourloneliness, but it's also a plain fun
frustrations and problems -- many of theand nice thing to do.
people you're talking to will have been



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