5 Reasons to Love Your Office Space

I caught Office Space while flipping through channels this weekend and watched the whole thing again … for about the fifth time. Nothing will make you appreciate freelancing more than that movie. Life in a cube may be a distant memory by now or perhaps so fresh it still haunts you in nightmares. But for freelancers who have forgotten, here are five reasons desperation and jealousy appeared in your co-workers’ eyes when they heard you were quitting to work from home:

1. Looks like somebody’s having a case of the Mondays
Every office has one! Ultra-perky and in-your-face, normally the self-appointed Queen of the Coffee Club and unafraid to use baby talk in phone conversations with her significant other. Freelancers don’t see her anymore. Freelancers are the self-appointed rulers of their own Coffee Clubs. When the Monday Blues come calling, freelancers aren’t pressured to act happy. They also don’t need executive privilege to take a two-hour lunch and refresh.

2. The pacer
Just like Bill Lumbergh, everybody has worked at some point for that boss who paces the room occasionally just to make sure the hamster wheel is firmly in motion. It made it darn near impossible to get any freelance work done on the clock (tell me I wasn’t the only guilty one). I still work with a pacer, but it’s my dog and I can tell him to go lay down and he listens.
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