Working on the Web is Risky Business
Working on the web is risky business.
Why?
You have no set working hours, you don’t have to physically get out of your house to work, you don’t receive promotions, rewards or anything of the like.
Basically, you don’t look like you’re working.
That is risky for two reasons:
1 – Work burnout is sneaky if you work for yourself. Right because of the fact that you don’t have any set working hours, it’s much harder to keep track of how long you’ve actually spent working. And this might lead to stress which is bad for your health, both physical and mental.
2 – Being lazy is much easier. The other side of the medal; you have no set working hours and you can’t feel guility for working one hour less than you should if you don’t know you’ve been doing just that. Of course, though, you can feel guilty if your uniques have dropped by a few percentual points, or you made 1k$ less than you did the month before.
3 – The people around you think you “do nothing all day” (and tend to think of you first when something has to be done and no one else can do it because they’re busy). I can’t begin to tell you how much I loathe the expression that some people assume when I say “I can’t do that, sorry. I gotta work today”. They raise their eyebrows as if they’re saying “Right, right, you don’t wanna do that. Sheesh!”.
I might not have an office in the strict sense of the word, I might not have a boss in the strict sense of the word, but I DO WORK TOO (and probably more than most 9-5ers).
If you’re a webmaster/web marketer/webdesigner or you just simply work from home, please share your thoughts by leaving a comment
P.S. One other thing is risky: living alone. No wonder there is a profession called ‘housewife’. Taking care of food, clothes and the house itself is a full time job.