At work there was always coffee in the coffee maker. How did it get there? Who made it? Who knew? You get to work and you get a coffee, an hour or so later you go down and get more, maybe grab a cookie or two. It was just there. At home the coffee maker is empty, there isn't even coffee in the cupboard, and who ate all the cookies.
Sometimes working from home sucks. You have to make coffee, but first you have to go out and buy the coffee. You have to buy cookies too. If you're lucky your kids might make cookies, but then you eat them all nice and warm from the oven, and you still don't have any cookies.
This raises an interesting point, while working at the office you have perks, like coffee and cookies, which the company pays for, and an endless stream of paper and supplies, computers that you don't have to worry about, lights and heat and even furniture.
So are you better off working for yourself at home? While there seems to be more cons, like you have to buy and make your own coffee, buy your own paper and supplies, pay for the utilities and possibly even even buy furniture for yourself. Working from home as benefits too that the office doesn't have (at least the office where I once worked) such as setting my own hours, wearing what ever I want, when I'm not seeing clients, going on field trips with my children's class, being home when they are sick and believe it or not, doing the laundry. Sure I work a lot at night at the dining room table, but the sense of freedom and being in control of what and when I do things far out weighs having coffee and cookies available all day long.
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