After two days of being forced to work from home due to the electrical fire in our building, I’ve decided that I don’t know if I could have a job where I work from home everyday. I used to think it sounded like an ideal situation, but now I’m not so sure. For the record, Kevin thinks I’m nuts.
Sure, there are some worthwhile benefits to working from home:
- It doesn’t matter how you look. You don’t need to fuss over your hair, make up or outfit choices. Pants are optional.
- You have full access to your kitchen to make warm snacks and lunches.
- There is zero commuting time.
- I get to spend all day with the puppy.
However, by the time Kevin got home from work yesterday, I was pretty stir crazy. I just missed having that daily social interaction. I was still plugged in to everyone via email and conference calls, but I really missed the face-to-face conversations and just being surrounded by people. By 5 p.m. yesterday, I felt the same way I do when I’m sick and forced to stay in. I was in need of some human interaction.
Now I see why a lot of people who work from home will take their work to Starbucks or Panera. Sometimes it’s just nice to be near others even if you’re not directly interacting with them.
It’s nice to be able to work from home every once in awhile, but I’ll enjoy returning to the office on Monday.
Since I was obviously aching for fresh air by the time Kevin got home, we decided to go out to eat for dinner. We grabbed a quick dinner at Pei Wei. Even though it’s right near our house, I hadn’t been to Pei Wei in quite some time, and I was pleasantly surprised by their new soda machine.
I’ve heard of these popping up in various places, but I had yet to play with one myself. I don’t usually order soda when I go out, but I couldn’t resist (I’m pretty sure that’s one of the marketing benefits of this machine). It’s a touch screen with a variety of Coke products to choose from. Once you choose your drink, you can choose a number of different flavors of that drink. I’m sure there’s hundreds of combinations. I rolled with a vanilla root beer. The only thing that weirded me out about the machine is the touch screen aspect. I don’t think I’d want to use this machine in a restaurant where I ate with my hands. I know it’s irrational, but for some reason, thinking about that grossed me out.
To eat, I ordered Mongolian tofu and vegetables with brown rice. They have a Diner’s Select menu where you get a main dish and a side, so I chose a veggie spring roll as my side. I love the Mongolian sauce. It’s very sweet.
It doesn’t even feel like it should be the weekend since I’ve been home for the past two days, but it’s nice to not be working. Have a great Saturday!
Do you get antsy when you are stuck at home for awhile?
I don’t drink soda either, but I reallly want to see one of those machines!
Qdoba or Spicy Pickle in DTC both have them. Because DTC is such a cool place to go eat… hahahaha.
I love those coke freestyles!! So much. I’d actually love to work from home. I’m a super homebody. Haha. In fact, I was unemployed from home when we first moved to Denver and I kinda loved it.
I don’t know if I’d be able to work from home. I feel like I would have to go to Starbucks or something for half a day just to get human interaction.
I would love working from home because I could go to the gym on my lunch breaks. It’s too much of a pain to do it at the office because you gotta dry your hair/put makeup back on right away and it ends up being a long lunch break and then you’re working longer. At home, you just shower, put your crappy clothes back on, and forget about the makup. DONE.
For me, it really depends on the day. When my son was first born and I stayed at home with him, there were days were I could chill at home in pjs and not mind, but there were some where I needed to get out of the house because I would go nuts. I think an ideal situation for me would be a job where I could work two or three days a week from home!
I loove those machines and they are a total marketing ploy. I never get soda, but when I saw on at a restaurant we went to a few months back I had to try it.