The Evolution of My Home Office

Since late 2008 when I started working online full time, my home office has evolved from its Spartan beginnings in a corner of my bedroom, to what it is today.

 I’m happy to report that my home (er, bedroom) office now occupies a third of the space. :)

Now, I have DSPS—delayed sleep phase syndrome. In short, my body clock is a time zone ahead of me. I’m awake when my part of the world is in dreamland, and I’m snoozing when everyone’s busy working their 9-to-5s.

One of the advice I often read—and what my doctor said—is never to bring work or TV into the bedroom. I'm not a great believer in TVs so I don't have it in my room. However, my room is a mini-library...and where my books are, so is my work desk.

the desktop of a work-at-home maven

So why not just set up my home office outside of the bedroom so I could sleep like any ordinary nine-to-fiver would?

For the simple reason that outside of my bedroom, there’s more chaos.

Children and adults coming and going. Phones ringing. Cable TVs with that come-hither look. A kitchen that begs someone a-cooking...

I’ll never get any work started or finished!

Which is why I’ve sequestered myself in the bedroom.

Besides, I’ve long given up on getting the night owl out of me though I’ve compromised a bit. I now work just after midnight, and continue until the mid afternoon—at which time I hit the sack.

Here’s the evolution of my home office, from 2008 to the present:

the bare bones version, when i was just beginning

i just had to have my printer within reach

and here's the start of the sprawl

that desk is a cousin's hand-me-down

my books needed room so i had to relocate the desk