home office freelancing, eagle or turkey?

In these times of greater flexibility, many desire to work at home. Some giant companies have been started in a garage somewhere like microsoft and yahoo and grew to giants, while others just make a freelancer a living, and some are simply dismal failures. Is there a special kind of person who can work freelance from a home office without a boss cracking the whip? Are some of us destined to always drive 50km to work and sit in an open plan office with a boss watching us from his corner glass-walled office for ever? In previous posts I've interviewed hot new start ups and  I asked what you would do with 20,000 seed money to work on your own business. I've asked this question of many people and it's surprising how few really have a clear vision or dream of what they want. They can tell you what they don't want, but can't sketch out their desired future. Can You? Here's a great competition you can enter. I'll be interviewing one of the contestants here. so watch this space. What work do you do as a freelancer? write, design, sell, manage? How do you keep yourself motivated and on target? Do you hang around with turkeys or eagles? Do you use use others success to motivate you or depress you? SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG AND GET THE LATEST CLICK HERE Wisequeen's Home office

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[Sean]

My father had always left for work at the same time each morning, walking the two blocks to the commuter train with a herd of businesspeople. The train schedule gave everybody their marching orders... whisking them away at the same time. They all stood in little groups on the platform and when the train stopped, the doors were always directly in front of them. The train was a precise and no-nonsense taskmaster... and a great mentor.

When my father started running his consulting business from home after an entire career in corporate America, he continued to get up as if he were leaving for the train... put on a suit and pressed shirt, tied his tie... even when he had no appointments. He had a certain time he went to the post office, and a certain time he went to the secretarial service he used. He had a list and did not move on to the next item until the previous was done.

This was not a natural tendency. He was not a naturally regimented guy. To the contrary. But he knew that sometimes seemingly illogical approaches are the most logical approached of all.

[wisequeen]

Thanks Sean for your insights.

[Nicky]

I would build the prototype of my small SDV a small submarine for divers and start my own business. I have been designing and building SDV for other people, now it is my turn to get stinking rich