“Where do you work?”
“Planet Earth.”
Sound familiar? No? Well, it should. More and more people are working from home on the Internet, and there are two things you should know about your office when you work on the Internet.
First, your office will be very, very small and very, very lonely, as I chronicled in my “hermit” articles.
Second, your office will be very, very big and full of many, many people from every corner of the planet, mostly trying to sell things to each other. That is because when you work from home, Planet Earth is your office and theirs.
For instance, would you believe that a man on the Internet in the Ukraine delivers the local weather forecast in Sydney to Chicago? So much for sticking your head out the window.
I have a client in the UK who sells machine parts through a website selling ceramic & ball bearings to every country in the world … except the UK, of course. Doesn’t that make the local hardware store redundant?
With so many clients crowding into my office, I could use some stress-relief techniques around now.
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