The Problem With Working From Home: Issue 4

Tech support.

Yeahhhhhh. This means YOU are the one responsible for making sure things are backed up. That your security software is up-to-date and if your email program suddenly starts marking one email IP address as SPAM, it means YOU get to be the one sitting on hold to talk to your email/Internet provider. It means you have to do the updates for your software. It means you have to install everything. It means if something breaks, you go to the store and buy a replacement.

In essence, you have to be freaking Jack of All Trades to work at home somewhat successfully. Either that or you have to have enough money to pay others to be the ‘brains’.

Really, it isn’t that bad, but it does take time out of one’s day. And even though I spent around an hour trying to resolve an email issue last night–you know the kind where you struggle with it until bedtime, eventually say ‘whatever’ and when you get up in the morning, it has fixed itself. Yeah, that kind–anyway, even though I did that, I still love working at home and am more than happy to figure out tech issues as they arise.  (Okay, maybe not quite ‘more than happy’.)

What are you work from home issues?