Last week in the post about turning home working horrors into hurrays, Kyle Newman mentioned that extrovert and introvert home workers probably respond in different ways to the threat of becoming isolated. Extroverts are generally understood to be outgoing people who like socialising and talking, whereas introverts we tend to think of as shy and [...]
Further to my post last week about home working routines on bank holidays, I decided on a kind of half-way course – to do a post today but to make it a lighthearted follow-up to the piece on home workers’ pets. As well as the comments on the post, I received quite a few tweets. [...]
Amongst the recent home workers’ favourite things featured here were a couple of cats and watching birds in the garden. It’s started me thinking what the best pets for home workers are. I’m a cat person by nature, although I’ve been cat-deprived for a long time now since my elderly tabby and tortoiseshell departed this [...]
Last week I asked about your personal horrors and hurrays of home working. Kyle Newman is the founder and director of The Move Beyond Group, which includes Beyond Health, a health and wellness consultancy that specialises in helping people improve their health, both physically and financially. Here he describes his own home working horror and [...]
Last week I mentioned a public speaking event being run by Triumphant Events, whose talks and workshops I’ve gained a huge amount of both information and inspiration from. Today I thought you’d like to hear about a mini retreat being held in London next week by my friend and mentor Nick Williams, who has helped [...]
August 17, 2010 - 10:27 am
Tags: getting out, pet hates
Posted in Homeworking dilemmas | 1 comment
Thanks to everyone who contributed their favourite home working things over the past few weeks. I, for one, love to catch a glimpse of other people’s home working lives and I’m sure we’ll soon come back to the topic – keep those photos coming! Now my clever partner A has suggested another subject that lets [...]
July 26, 2010 - 10:06 pm
Tags: Coworking, Jelly
Posted in Coworking, Jelly, Workhubs | 1 comment
The Workhubs Conference in June was a wonderful day spent listening to people from all over the UK who are committed to providing coworking space for home workers and freelancers, sometimes in difficult financial circumstances. It inspired me to write about the mutual benefits of Jelly and workhubs and you can see the results on [...]
July 6, 2010 - 11:34 am
Tags: getting out
Posted in Coworking, Jelly, Workhubs | No comments
This time last week I was speaking on the workhubs user panel at the Workhubs Conference at BT Centre in London – quite a change from my usual Tuesday of home working! The conference launched the new report on workhubs written by the Workhubs Network (run by Tim Dwelly, whom I know from my Cornwall [...]
Yes, you did read that right, despite Dolly Parton’s chirpings! It’s the title of the latest book by Emma Jones, the founder of Enterprise Nation, the online resource for setting up and growing a home business. Emma has identified a growing band of people running businesses alongside their jobs, either to guard against possible future [...]