Well – I took a big leap this month.
My business has taken off in a serious way so I took the big leap to renting an office space.
I decided to do this because I spend about seventy percent of my working time doing instructional videos. The problem is that my wife is a stay at home mom and my youngest son is special needs so he is home schooled. Adding to that mix we have two cats and I just got the wife a Jack Russell Puppy. The neighbors dogs bark a lot too. As you can imagine it gets pretty noisy around here.
The wife gets a little annoyed because she can’t vacuum or wash clothes while I am producing videos. So that is why I decided to get a “Real Office”.
Now I must say that I do like getting out of the house and conversing with other business people so that part is great. This move was not without it’s problems though.
On the first day I couldn’t get my external hard drive to work. Turns out it wasn’t plugged in all the way. (Dumb ass eh?). I am using my laptop at the office and when I hooked up the external monitor I couldn’t get it adjusted properly. Soon I got that ironed out.
It turns out my computer went into dual monitor mode. I had never used that before. Man that is really cool. You should try it some time.
Next some homeless dude walked into my office looking for a bathroom. I got rid of him before he peed in the corner lol.
Well – everything is set – time to get to work. I started recording videos – but there was a problem. My office is so sparse that there is a discernible echo on the audio track. So today I am back in my home office recording until I can get into the city and get an area rug and a bit of office furniture.
I’ll try again next week.
Feel free to comment about your work environment and any problems and solutions you have come across.
