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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
My advice is to keep your commute short. Traveling daily is a pure waste of time. Waste as little as possible. My best work got done when the office was 3 blocks from the house. If you have a garage or a basement with a separate entrance that you can turn into an office and cut off direct access to the rest of the house that would even work. Or rent an apartment nearby.
If you take public transportation and can read or accomplish something worthwhile during the commute then its not an issue but if you are driving you are dumping hours of your life (non recoverable hours) into a commute, adding to your vehicle maintenance and fuel expense for no good reason unless you get something as close as possible.
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In a way I did that when I moved to my house and turned a spare room into an office so I didn't need to rent an office anymore. The office doesn't have a separate entrance, but I decorated it to look very different from the rest of the house. I painted it different, put in a hardwood floor, hung up pictures that gave it an office feel and I don't have a TV or anything like that in there. When I go in to work I shut the door and it makes me feel like I'm in a different place and helps me focus.