Life-in-Progress

I really hate working from home. A lot. Aside from the whole ‘building revenue’ issue (hardly insignificant), this is undoubtedly the thing I find the hardest about starting a new business.

I miss being in an office. I miss the routine of a schedule. I miss interacting with people who are working on the same, similar or even entirely unrelated projects — people who stop by my desk, ask questions, bounce ideas off me, vent and to whom I can do the same.

Of course, if I were still living in New York the prospect of working from home for most of the winter would hold a definite appeal. But here in Austin, there is just nothing about it that I like.

Every few days I’ll head out and spend a few hours working in the business center of our apartment complex or in a coffee shop, but it’s not the same thing. And Austin has several co-working locations where contractors and entrepreneurs can work in a slightly more social, communal environment. But that’s only moderately better, since most of them are developers who are focused (and frequently very introverted), and whose work has nothing to do with what I’m doing at all.

I need to come up with a solution to this, and I’ll have to get creative about it, because I don’t see this as being sustainable for me indefinitely. I need the activity and interactivity of an office, at least on a part-time basis.

Of course, the irony is that my husband is going to start looking for a job to help counter-balance our income while we work on building up the business. He’s the one who always wanted his own business (I always swore I’d never, ever do this). He’s the one who hates schedules and timetables (I am constantly driving us both crazy trying to get him to care about them because they are my single biggest psychological security blanket). He’s the introvert who is happy going days without straying far from home (I’m an extrovert who spirals into a horrible depression if left isolated for too long).

Heh. This situation is replete with too many ironies to count.

I need a social networking tool that takes the edge off this issue, the way that Facebook takes the edge of missing my friends and family — all of whom are 2K or so away.

Still not the same thing, though.

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