Our third bedroom serves solely as an office. I love it! nm
Posted By: MTheaded on 2005-09-22
In Reply to: Wow, do most of y'all work in your bedrooms? sm - I do, too!
x
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
I use an extra bedroom. Just bought a 4 bedroom house so I can have an office, for one reason.
Nice and cheery, sunny, comfortable and a room all to myself! Love my office.
Check with your tax person for certainty but I have a room solely used for my home office and I even
:)
My office is also our 3rd bedroom.
I wanted to be able to use it as one of my business tax deductions and we have the extra room (just husband & I).
Just this past few months, I decorated my office in a tropical theme and bought the desk of my dreams (and it was cheap!). :D I love being able to sit at my desk and look out into our front yard, see the trees, our driveway, road, etc. My office is very cheerful and since I spend SO much time in it I wanted to love "going to work" :) I feel so lucky to have my own office.
I have a bedroom that is used only as my office
I just love my office. I have it painted in a soft yellow and decorated in tropical decor with a wicker chair and storage chest with a decorative bamboo room divider. I have an artificial palm tree and palm tree & mirror wall hanging, as well as an artificial plant hanging from the ceiling and a decorative shell type thing hanging from the ceiling. I have an L-shaped desk with a hutch that sits in the corner where I look to the right out a window that has a bamboo type shade on it which I keep rolled up and a nice tropical/palm tree valance on it. I have my PC, a laptop, and two printers on my desk. I am going to buy a rolling TV stand to put one printer on (that I use with my laptop) to clear off some of my desk. I absolutely love my desk and my view out my front yard. I feel so lucky. :)
Years ago I had to work in our family room with the kids and TV in our old house - not good. Now, in our new house, it is just my husband and I (and our three Shih Tzu). :) I feel as though I live in this room so wanted to love coming in here and I do. :)
Office in livingroom or bedroom?
Would like your opinions, advice, pros and cons on whether you have your office in a main part of the house or separate room. Right now mine is in a main part of the house, but I get constantly distracted by disabled husband, TV and dogs barking etc. If it's not my dogs barking, it is the neighbors barking (all day long!). What do the rest of you do?
I have converted a bedroom into an office. (sm)
The windows all look out into the woods so I can take a restful gaze when I want to. If the door is open it leaves me a clear shot through the living room and the front door so I can see if anyone comes in or out and I didn't hear them. My elderly mom lives with me so I don't want to be too isolated. We live in the country so dog, cat, chicken, cattle noises and a train that runs not too far from my house are all part of the natural background noise and I don't even notice them.
I used to work in the master bedroom and now I have my own office. I could
x
I have converted a bedroom to office. Can shut
x
I'm in 2/2 condo. Office is half of large bedroom. Den
xx
I started too but home office got moved to bedroom. sm.
Now have to use earphones when husband is sleeping. I actually prefer the earphones just because my speakers weren't the best but it worked well the other way too.
Love my office
We had our home built about two years ago. All the rooms are big except for my office, but it is really all I need. It has a built-in oak desk and cabinets. I have a shelf with all my Precious Moment figurines. Also, I have an antique Singer sewing machine in front of the window. I also have shelves on the wall with more PMs! I have a bulletin board with pictures, etc and lots of pictures of my kids on the wall. It is small but I consider it my little hideaway! 
I love my office,,,
Two of my walls have a step back, meaning there is an oak shelf that cuts the wall in two. The top half is painted a soothing sage green with the bottom half a shade or two darker. The two walls without the shelf are painted the lighter green. Have white crown molding and closet doors. Initially my L-shaped desk was facing into a corner but changed that so now I sit facing into the room with window on my right and door on my left. Desk, filing cabinets, window molding, shelf are in oak. I have little fridge, microwave, TV, Bose radio with DVD and CD hook-up, dark green love seat that I sleep on (I am short, lol), Nordic Trac ( which I seldom use), dog's crate and hubby's old desk in here with me. The floor just has a remant of blue carpet because puppies and baby-sitting dogs spend time in here with me and I don't want to have to worry about "accidents." When I decide to finish the floor, will probably be in hardwood to match other wood in here. Also have ceiling fan with remote, which was a wonderful idea. I LOVE my office. I call it my cocoon room.
That's what she said! Love The Office!!! NM
x
I love your office...sm
I looked at the pictures. It looks great. I have to redo my office. It is actually my office, and my junk room right now. My christmas decorations are still sitting in here. I have got to do some redoing. I love your garden view from the window. You have a lovely garden. I too love flowers. I have planted in flower garden I am quite proud of in my front yard. Thanks for the pictures.
I got a chair at Office Max and I love it.
I only paid $89 as it was on sale, down from around $150. It sits wonderfully and adjusts to any position I want. Even the armrests adjust. I can positions throughout the day if I get uncomfortable with one position. I don't know the brand, I'd have to look on mine at home if you are interested.
Don't you love these doctor's wives who have to be in the office
but we all know they're just keeping an eye on the checkbook they married. So pathetic.
Dell for office computer and lap top and love both. (nm)
x
anyone get into this business solely to not
I think I did. Thats what attracted me to it the most. Call that sad if you want, most people in my life think its sad. But I seriously cannot deal with the average person. I've always been somewhat of a misfit anyway, only because I'm not a gossiper, not a talker about someone behind ones back, and am generally just open to all kinds of people, but I find when I don't get that back, I get so oversensitive that I just want to hide.
I have started back at school, because I do want something more out of life. I am in my mid 30s and let me tell you its so hard being in school with these young insensitive people with attitudes. Case in point, my class last night, I ask a simple question of my class mate and before she could answer, she had to roll her eyes in the back of her head and sigh, like it was a big inconvenience to answer my one little question. Of course making me feel like I did back in grade school...a misfit. Things like that just burn me because it would never occur to me to do that to someone, so it makes me want to crawl back into my MT hole, put on my PJs, get my coco and just punch out lines, collect a pay check, and give the finger to everyone else. Why be nice anymore???
I know this is totally off topic but maybe some of you have the same frustrations and maybe we chose this profession because of our sensitive dispositions? Whats funny, i'm majoring in psychology so I can figure people out and myself, and i'm just starting out, but its the people who I come in contact now that make me want to give it up. Just the overall fast paced and rudeness of the world has got me down today. I used to hide in my house and I remember I was a lot more at peace when I did that. Nobody to look at me sideways or whisper about me for absolutely no reason, other than I'm there or am different from them. 
Working as an IC solely FT, you should
have been paying quarterly taxes. If you were not, that is probably the cause of your penalities.
I work in-house for doctor's office now and Love My Job!
Good Luck. I accepted an in-house position at a doctor's office after being laid off from a very large hospital. It is wonderful to be able to go and ask the doctor questions and get feedback directly from them. It really is the way to go now instead of working for the really big transcription companies. I feel like I am appreciated.
It's wise to dedicate one pc solely
for work purposes, in addition to having a back-up pc available. If you do not have a medica/pharma spellchecker download on your pc, it's a good idea to purchase it. Depending on who you will be transcribing for you may need an unlimited long distance calling plan if you do not have it already. A high speed connection is recommended and necessary by most companies. Up-dated virus protection is a must. A printer may be required. You are a step ahead of the game by already having purchased a desk and a comfortable chair, which are a must. If you need to purchase a foot pedal, I would recommend buying a new one. So, depending on what you already have, start-up costs can run anywhere from $100.00 to approximately 1,000.00, and while it may seem like a huge expense, you should recoup these expenses within 3 months of working. Good luck to you and enjoy!
How many of you use a Laptop solely for work? nm
xx
I don't think it will. But I can't say for sure. If memory serves, you can't have both pr
running simultaneously and switch back and forth, the pedal won't work or it will only work with one but not the other. However, if you've configured your pedal in both programs, then it should work with each program separately.
If memory serves
it'll be about $50 to $60 a month. When I changed my phone to business, I also had to upgrade my internet as I have internet through AT&T. If you have internet through another provider then you might not need to do that.
Serves me right! I'm always advising people to look it up. sm
There are so many things it could stand for, I just thought it might be hard to narrow down. My bad. (Could be Old Person, Overly Prissy, Organized & Perfect) Only Old Person would apply to me, by the way. Anyway, LOL and thanks. I good a good laugh at myself.
if memory serves correctly
AutoText is saved in your normal.dot file.
It serves as a deterrent and I fully support it.
In fact, our whole family had to laugh when a local home supplies store put on their marquee out front "xxxx Heat and Air bounced THREE checks. Pay up!"
Not only will we never do business with that contractor, but it might serve as a lesson to everyone to not write checks you can't pay.
If memory serves, the code for the headset key is *11. So... SM
you would press the program button twice (there are 3 buttons directly beneath the LED screen on your phone and the program button is the one at the far right, I believe) and then you would press the button you want to repogram (the headset button) and then press *11 and enter.
Now, don't give me a hard time if I'm wrong. It has been years since I've had to reprogram a C-phone, but I used to have to do regularly when I worked in the hospital as a supervisor.
If memory serves (and most of the time it doesn't!), isn't it # to speed up and * to slow down
You just repeatedly hit the # or * keys to the desired speed, right?
bedroom
I'm in a 2 bedroom place with my bedroom being the biggest, rather large for an apt. I have it set up that one part is more of an office, then the bed. My supe told me never to work in the bedroom because your mind was always on work then...which I never found.
Only other choice is the living room and with the kids and TV....forget that one!
In my bedroom.
That way I can work at any time without disturbing anyone or having anyone disturb me.
Guess it's just what works best for you in terms of space and solitude.
The dog thing though, don't know what you can do about that!
I'm in my bedroom closet, too! (sm)
Didn't wanna say that cause it sounds weird, but it's big, has a window, and shelves. It's quiet and out of the way. I can close the door and forget about it when I'm not working, but can't quite remember when that is!
Wow, I really don't feel so alone now! 
Yes, in our bedroom, large though 27 x 12 - sm
We plan to build though in about 3 years (have some property)...getting a home office then....either a separate room or a room off the bedroom, but my own space anyway. Can't wait!
What you do in your own bedroom is your business
But when you try to shove it in our faces and try to make us like it, that's another matter entirely. Keep it to yourselves and leave the rest of us out of it. It is NOT an "alternate lifestyle".
In my bedroom, no fluorescents.
x
I use an extra bedroom currently. We
homeschool and I also have a couple of bookshelves in my office filled with school stuff and a 3-drawer rolling cart filled with school stuff, plus another desk and printer stand in addition to mine, and a 2-drawer filing cabinet. When I am organized and have everything off the floor and clean I am very comfortable in my space, but when I have piles of books and other stuff on the floor and on the desk it isn't as pleasant a place to be.
I have worked in a BR that I had all the baby's things/toys in and that wasn't so bad because at the time I didn't have all the gadgets I have now.
I have also worked in a corner of my den and I liked being out with the family and the kitchen was right off the family room, but it is hard to work with someone watching TV and talking around you.
I am in our bedroom now, but am setting up - sm
an area in our dining room slowly. Will still work in the BR (I think) during the day; but will move out to the DR when DH wants to go to bed so my typing does not keep him up. That has been a running battle for years and finally bought a new CPU as a backup and now am loading all my programs, etc. which I don't have the time to do of course. Just need to finish doing that and get a new monitor as I am using an ancient one right now that is probably around 12 years old now, huge bugger. If I like it out there more I may work out there during the day too.
Another happy bedroom worker...
My only complaint is that my carpet is cold when I step from my bed 2 inches to my computer during my morning commute...
speaking of "working from your bedroom"
I used to hate when people would think that I worked at home doing one of those jobs you see posted on phone poles "work from home/make 2500 a month part time, etc. Even by bozo cousin had people calling me about "how to get started".........and then there were the nosey neighbors, who would get so curious as to what you did do at home to earn an income,
Finally came up with a great response that just shut them all up in their tracks....
"I love working from home, never have to worry about getting dressed and can make as much money as I want without even having to leave my bedroom depending on how much I felt like producing each day w/o getting sore muscles"...left a lot of them to wonder LOL
What I do in my bedroom, I don't think of as work, hehehe
:)
sort of, I'm in our bedroom closet.
The three other bedrooms are occupied by our kids. I used to have one of the bedrooms before daughter moved back home, but I rather like the closet, it's very quiet.
Master Bedroom--one day will have my own space though - sm
probably in 5 or so years....going to move and build on some property we have 12 miles from where we are now....so it with either be an extra bedroom or "the study" downstairs. My husband will be happier as he has trouble falling to sleep when I am working (noisy/hard keyboard).
Thanks but where did the 850 foot bedroom come into the picture?
NM
The phone in my bedroom does not have the ring on
my hubby with his line of work has different sleeping hours than me so the phone does not ring so he wont be bothered. Other phones in the house have the ringers on. That solves my problem.
Have bedroom only for work place
Sit to where I can see out to the mailbox and my driveway. I have my television in here though and also husband wanted to join me so he has his computer desk right behind me. He could have had his own room but he wanted to be close to his honey. It works out really well.
Have most people had good luck with their MQ office closing and moving to the regional office. Have
things gotten better or worse for you.
Yes, I lost mine. I upgraded the Office 2000 package to Office 2003. sm
I have over 2000 autocorrect entries and lost them all as well as my supplemental dictionary for my Stedman's spellcheck. Lots of grief!
Maybe you will be lucky and not lose anything. Good luck to you.
Might be able to rent one from an office supply or office machine repair shop
s
I gave a tin of toffee for each office and a Lia Sophia necklace to each office manager. ~nm~
x
I gave a tin of toffee for each office and a Lia Sophia necklace to each office manager. ~nm~
x
What other profession allows U to make money in ur bedroom?
|
