Day 5: Day is Night & Night is Day When Working From Home

Isn't the title confusing? Of course it is. But that is what happens to you when you're working from home. Work from home is always considered an awesome concept but those who really work from home understand what it is really like. Obviously, when it comes to talking about this in front of people who go for an office job, we prefer to boast and feel proud of what we do. The reality is somewhat different though.

You never know when you should wake up, when you should sleep, when you should eat and when you should work. Other things like going out, exercising, watching T.V. - all become a burden. When you work, you feel like chilling out and when you chill out, you feel like working. You don't care of completing work on time for well, you have the entire day to finish off the work.

This awesome feeling ends when the clock strikes 12 at midnight. Your cell phone starts showing that it is the new day and you're left wondering if you should consider it as a new day. You have to let yourself feel that as you are working from home and your clients reside in some other part of the world, they won't notice that you are late at submitting your work. And that's why you decide not to consider it as a new day until you complete your work and go for a 10 hour sleep (oh yes, we do sleep a lot but we never tell that to anyone).

Perks of working from home... you're your own boss. But with perks, there comes a lot of burden. You play with your work ethics, you play with your health and you play with the feelings of your loved ones. They think you're always busy. Why? Because either your work is seriously lagging behind or you're trying to work a little more to earn a few more bucks. Greed is what overpowers you all the time. You want to make yourself work on and on so that you can buy that new camera your favorite YouTuber just bought. And then you expect your loved ones to understand that. 

You don't care of your health and get fat. Then comes the time when you become too fat that the clothes which were loose don't fit you anymore. You start thinking of what went wrong. You think of including exercising in your daily schedule but then a yoga mat seems even costlier than the new DSLR you just bought. So, you never buy the yoga mat because of its "high price" and that acts as your excuse for not exercising.

When you need to go out for any meeting or just to work on something you planned before you actually took up this working from home, you feel sad. You complain and try to shirk off that work. It becomes too difficult to turn on the geyser and step into a hot stress relieving shower which you had always loved. Because that task would lead you to get ready and ultimately, step out of the house which you don't want.

Now, you tell me, does this work from home concept looks as good as it seemed to you before I told you about this? Have you tried the concept by yourself? What did you face? Did you face something like I am facing now? Is there anything that you can suggest to help me out? Let me know.