Work at Home Health
Posted on January 8, 2010
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Health is a major aspect to working at home and one that far too many of those who do, tend to ignore, often until its too late. Its easy to see why this is such a big issue. When you work at home, many of the things that you used to do when you worked for a boss or at a company office or whatever, you suddenly stop doing.
These things include maybe walking to the bus stop or train station if you didn’t use your car, running up and down several flights of stairs in your building, or the manual work that would accompany a variety of jobs. They would also include interaction with co-workers which would often result in group gym or swimming sessions at lunch times or after work, playing a sport for your company team, or a myriad other things that got you up and doing things.
The downside to working for a company and especially for office workers with respect to health would be the avoidance of healthy lunches in favor of the ubiquitous liquid lunches at the local pub or bar, meaning a daily diet of alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes and little of no exercise.
So there are two sides of the coin when it comes to health and working at home. On the one side, you miss the opportunities for social interaction and exercise, while on the other you certainly don’t miss the excess alcohol and other stimulants that often accompany working in an office.
So what can you do at home to improve your health, or at least prevent it from sliding down a very slippery chute?
In the mornings, before you head for your home office, take a half hour and go for an early morning walk or better still a run or a swim. This will set you up for the day and you’ll not only feel better, but you’ll be able to feel smug that you can do this at 9.00am and no boss is going to yell at you for turning up late!
At lunch time, again get up out of your home office and do something other than grab a sandwich and either sit back at your desk or in front of the TV. When you finish in the evening, again head outdoors and do something energetic before having your evening meal.
Throughout the day, try to avoid drinking cup after cup of coffee or tea and instead vary it by including herbal teas or green tea instead of black. You don’t want to have too much caffeine in your system, although a little is a good thing for helping to keep your concentration keen. It goes without saying that you really should not smoke,so don’t think that just because you are not under the strict anti-smoking-in-the-office rules that its ok to smoke in your own home office. Bad, bad, bad!
Lastly, and this is another easy bad habit to get into when you work at home, avoid drinking cola or other soda drinks to wash down biscuits, cakes or candy bars while you’re at your desk. Cola (you know the main brands without me having to mention them here) also contains caffeine as well as loads of sugar (or worse, artificial sweeteners) so these will be bad for your waistline.
If you stay sensible about what you eat, drink and the amount of daily exercise you get, you’ll be able to work from home in the peak of fitness and health and not succumb to the weight and health problems so many of your compatriots fall victim to.
Work at Home Benefits
Posted on November 9, 2009
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Welcome back to a blog that caters for the work at home entrepreneur or blogger looking to make a living from their writing and marketing skills. In this post, I want to take a look at the benefits of working from home and how it compares to working at a regular job.
Well, for me, the very thought of ever having to go back to work for a company is unpalatable for a variety of reasons, but I suppose the foremost of those is that once you’ve been your own boss and worked for yourself, it is very difficult to swallow your pride and go back to work for someone else.
So with that thought firmly entrenched in the back of my mind, I set myself on a trail that would lead me to self sufficiency and mean that I would never have to take that backward step in life. So what are the benefits to working at home that make it such an appealing way of life for so many people?
The first thing is, as I have already mentioned, not having to work for someone else, or not having a “boss” who can tell you what to do, how to do it and when.
Some people like the security of working for a company and even accept the ordering about from a boss because they find it easier to have their workload set out for them and to know exactly what it is they have to do, how long it should take them and how they should go about accomplishing that. That’s fine and each to their own.
Others dislike that way of working and it is those that seek out ways to change their circumstances, meaning a way to work for themselves and not to be at the beck and call of a boss, or worse, be an underling to a hierarchy of supervisors, managers, senior managers etc.
Another benefit I enjoy as I work from home is that I never need to commute to an office. That saves on time and travel costs, but to me the time saving is the crucial one. Commuting can often take an hour or more each way, lengthening your effective working day by an additional two to three hours or more. That’s an eighth of your day and over a five day week adds up to an entire waking day! So i could say that by working at home, I gain an extra day every week!
Another benefit is the flexibility of my working hours. If I oversleep, so what? I just make a point of working a little later that day to maintain my weekly hours that I need to effectively produce my income. If I were working for a company, guess how long I’d keep my job if I regularly overslept a day or more each week!
Working at home, for myself also allows me to make full use of my own creativity in the way that I do my work which ultimately results in teh way that my income is derived. For me personally, I spend a good deal of my working day building my portfolio of websites into a position where they generate income without further constant maintenance from me. In other words, the income they generate is passive and will continue to produce a relatively steady flow of cash whether I tend them or not. This is important as it means I can take a day off whenever I want to and the income from those sources will not diminish or alter because of it. Try doing that if you work for a company!
Your boss won’t be too happy if you just take the day off on a whim as the money you generate for the company will stop when you’re absent, especially if you are in manufacturing or production.
So that’s about as much as I want to write on the subject for now. I may carry this on in a future post.
How Not to Make Money Online
Posted on October 10, 2009
Category: make money online | 2 Comments
Welcome back to Blog Subway, where I want to take a cold hard look at one of the ways of how not to make money online. Blogging in the subway doesn’t mean I’m blogging in the, erm actual subway, if anyone is wondering! This is really just an underground look at what’s going on in the world of blogging and where people are using blogs to make money from blogging. So what’s the latest to hit the cyber streets?
Well, it may or may not surprise you to learn that Mr Problogger has created a paid forum where noobs can go and be taught a load of totally useless stuff by more noobs. They can pay $2 for the privilege, too! Ok, $2 is not going to hurt anyone’s paypal account but it will surely make a nice bit of extra income for Mr Rowse, the blog/forum’s owner.
Some of the big guns have already come out blazing about how this is such a bad idea for noobs (although a very good idea for Darren Rowse) and that it’ll just create a whole new bunch of clueless noobs doing everything wrong while they try to make money online using the hopelessly inadequate ramblings of the so-called experts who are running said forum.
On the one hand, its annoying and might even have got a similar derogatory response from yours truly, but upon reflection, the more noobs that learn all the wrong stuff from the likes of problogger, then the lower the competition for me. I’ve actually gotten to the stage where I’m not even going to give out any more information on what you really need to do in order to make money online. Why should I? I’d just be writing a whole load of stuff that you can find on one or two other blogs that tell it like it is and don’t spout the same tired old nonsense that a thousand other blogger spout day in and day out. And for what?
To teach people how to take money out of my own pocket?
You must be joking! There are still many fine ways to make money from the Internet and they still work well and don’t cause anyone to get ripped off or scammed, so I’ll keep my methods to myself and keep you all guessing. Much better, methinks!
So this was an entirely non-useful blog post for anyone wanting to know the right way to earn an income online, except for one saving grace and that is I told you how NOT to go about it.