Yeah, but you have your self respect.

I did the cord thing when I was pregnant, a telecommunter, and on bed rest. Meanwhile, non tele-workers simply filed disability and took the time off. Who was smarter? NOT me!

I've worked from home for ages. Oart of a recent job included going to the "main office" once a week. On bad weeks, more than once.

At one point I got Pneumonia. That meant no trip to the main office. It also meant no getting up from my bed and going to the home office to do the day's tasks.

In fact, I called one of the fellers to whom I [supposedly] answered, to tell him that I was on death's door, too ill to even stay on the phone any longer, and needed to go to sleep. As in "don't even send me e-mail and expect it to be read."

For the next few days the only way they could reach me was via the cell phone, and even those calls often went unanswered. Caller ID, you know.

An even more difficult question is this: when you work for yourself, and you get sick, do you give yourself permission to take a sick day?

When I was bedridden for a while with a knee problem (much pain, inability to walk), I solved the problem by adding a super-long network cable, and using the laptop from my bed.

Except when the pain killers kicked in, and I would drift off to sleep in hopes of awakening with a better knee.

--dfl

Agreed--you are always sick when you work from home. it is just, well, sick. I hate being sick and home because work doesn't ever go the heck AWAY!