Why Telecommuting Rocks

As many Jcyreus dot com readers know, I recently took a big risk when I asked my employer if I could stop coming into our office in Wisconsin and begin working from home.

If you are wondering why this was such a risky proposition for me, the reason is that I posed the question on the same day that I had sold my home in that state and was preparing to put in an offer to purchase my next primary residence…1400 miles away in Florida.

This wasn’t the first they had heard of my intention to relocate; it was simply the day that the rumor became reality. Fortunately, I received the approval that I needed in order to keep my job and everything proceeded about as good as it could have with our real estate transactions, especially considering today’s marketspace.

After taking a couple of weeks off to get moved, I started back to work on May 12.

With the change in time zones and absent the necessity to ready myself and drive to work each day, I’m able to get started about 90 minutes earlier than I had in the past. This has worked out well for me in that much of the work I do deals with our offices in New Delhi, where 7 am EDT is 6:30 PM IST, which translates to enough time for me to reply to emails and receive responses without having to wait until that office’s next shift starts. Focus and productivity have also improved considerably and I don’t know if I simply had a bad chair at my last office, but the neck and back pain that I had been struggling with over the last few months have suddenly disappeared.

Strangely, I am still challenged to find the time I would like to dedicate toward maintaining this blog and working on a few other side projects. I do believe that once I am finished with some of the minor home renovations that we have been working through, that extra time will materialize.

I have been fortunate enough to find the time to get back into a consistent exercise program which has helped me to lose and keep off about 7 lbs since arriving in FL.

Coincidentally, Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips assembled a listing of “ The Pros and Cons of Working from Home on the Internet” earlier this week. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the pros beat out the cons that he described every time. It has only been 4 weeks for me, but the satisfaction I have personally found so far in my career, my family life and my renewed Faith in the possibilities that life has to offer have all had a profound effect on me. The improvements we have seen so far completely justify the risks we took and the expenses we have incurred as a result of the decisions we made to effect this change.

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