To Work From Home or Not?

"When I started working about 15 years ago, it was pretty much impossible for me to be able to work from home at anywhere near the level of productivity that I could have in the office. Mainly because I needed access to files and things that were simply cumbersome at best to carry back and forth with me every day. I actually just got tired of trying and flat out just gave up. Then most of my work shifted from manual paper shuffling to all being on my computer. All of sudden some of my coworkers started disappearing by getting the authorization to work from home over VPN (the company virtual private network). Well, naturally I wanted to find out what was involved.

The first thing that I needed to do was get off of my old dial up Internet provider and find some high-speed internet providers in my area. I found them using a review site that made it easy to compare the various providers side-by-side to make sure they would all work and that I could easily compare the cost of each service. I settled down on AT&T since it was a name I knew and trusted and I simply had to make sure that I could rely on my Internet at home to always be functional in order to be able to work from home consistently.

Next I followed tips from various sites about how to setup VPN at home. Of course I also had to work with the tech department at work to get a security key and to get my work notebook authorized and setup to use our work VPN. All-in-all there were quite a few steps involved but now that I am setup I can tell you that the question of whether to work from home or not, is super easy to answer… YES, WORK FROM HOME!"