My freelance island tends to move around a bit. I'm like a cat: I change my favorite spot periodically. Right now, I'm spending a lot of time working at my desk, but my other favorite places include my rocker, the porch (when the weather is nice), and the kitchen table.
I used to work in bed sometimes, like Amy does, but I haven't done that in a while now.
I'm one of those people who can work wherever, so I'd probably be fine on a desert island. In fact, I often find that I get more done if I work someplace else — although I prefer the library or a coffee shop to a desert island! However, next spring and summer (and maybe this winter, too, as warm as it has been) I want to try taking my computer to the stables and working there while Panama grazes. It's nice and quiet — a perfect creative setting!
Wherever I decide to work, I always take these things with me:
* Laptop - At a little over 3 pounds, my Averatec has assumed security blanket status.
* Pen and scratch paper - Just like Amy, I find that being able to write things down is still a necessity, no matter how pro-computer I am.
* Time sheet - A little over a year ago, I started keeping track of the time I spend on each project. It allows me to determine my hourly rate for each project, and also will make the IRS happy if I ever get audited, as it proves that I really do use my laptop for work 75 percent of the time (well, more actually).
* Timer - I recently started using a kitchen timer to try to motivate me to keep my focus and not get distracted when I'm working. It works — sometimes.
* iPod and speakers/headphones - I go through phases (like right now) where listening to music helps me focus.
Also like Amy, often I have one or more of our fur-children with me. My black cat, Cleo, is my porch buddy. Either one of the cats might hang out in the office window while I work, and Prince (my white cat) likes to steal my seat in the rocker. Periodically, one or both of the dogs hang out with me, too.
So that's it — my freelance island! What does yours look like?
4 comments:
You've got a real zoo going on over there, don't you? :-)
Your island is FANCY!
I prefer to call it our menagerie. We have a hamster, too. We have a weakness for rescuing pets, I guess, because that's where most of our fur-children came from.
LOVE your island!
Smiles,
Michele
Thanks Michele! Yours is neat too! Looks like you have everything you need within reach. Nice setup!
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