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June 3rd, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs I thought I should summarize my 5 part series on working from home. We had visitors stay with us the past few days and this subject came up with this couple. The husband happily works at home and the other may be still working at her past job if she was allowed to work at …
Continue reading Move Your Office to Work From Home – 5 Part Series
May 24th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs This is the final instalment of my work from home series. Other blogs in this series are: my story , inefficiency of the office, risk and rewards from the employer’s point of view, and risks and rewards from an employee’s point of view.
Employers hire employees to get a job done. If the most important thing is getting the …
Continue reading Benefits of Working From Home – Salary Restructure Suggestion
May 18th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | Other Fun Stuff  Can one be successfully self employed when you do not spend the majority of your time on the business? What if you have a partner but that partner also spends less than full time hours on the business? Can you really be successful entrepreneurs when neither considers the business as their top priority? We are …
Continue reading Can You Be Successful in Business when Family Comes First?
May 13th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs This is part 4 of a 5-part series on working from home. Part one presented my story when I did my office job from our basement, part 2 discusses the inefficiency of the office, and part 3 looked at the risk and rewards from the employers point of view.
The past blog in this series looked at the risks …
Continue reading Benefits of Working From Home – Part Four – Employee Risks and Rewards
May 4th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs  Lisa in High School. photo by Sean O'Connell
Lisa was a photographer when we first met and she continues to be one today. I met my future wife over 20 years ago when she was hired at the same photography store and from our first meeting her passion for photography was evident. She was heading …
Continue reading Acting on Life Long Business Dreams
April 12th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs This is part 3 of a 5-part series on working from home. Part one presented my story when I did my office job from our basement and part 2 discusses the inefficiency of the office.
In my opinion companies should consider having their employees work from home. This is not to say that all employees should work from …
Continue reading Benefits of Working From Home – Part Three – Employer Risks and Rewards
April 4th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | Other Fun Stuff  Winter may have kicked us hard this year but we are slowly ‘springing’ back to life. That was a horrible over used pun but I don’t care because I have sunshine giddiness (weeee). The flu and colds are in the past and we are spending a lot more time outside. We even had a picnic!
We have done a …
Continue reading Spring Activity Challenge- First Recap
March 28th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs This is part 2 of a 5-part series on working from home. Part one looked at my story when I did my office job from our basement.
Working in a professional office can be very inefficient. When I moved from the office to work at home it was a real eye opener to discover that I …
Continue reading Benefits of Working From Home: Part Two – Inefficiency of the Office
March 22nd, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | Other Fun Stuff  I don’t know why but this winter has been hard. I guess I know some of the reasons. This winter has been cold, wet, and stormy. We have tried to go outside but it has been downright lousy. On top of, or perhaps because of the weather, our family has been hard hit by colds. …
Continue reading Spring Activity Challenge – 2011
March 20th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | Other Fun Stuff  This is our first blog since late January. We the heck did we go? What have we been doing with our time? What’s going on? I will give you three plausible answers and I will let you choose which gives you the most comfort and joy.
We cracked and had to get away. After 395 consecutive …
Continue reading Family Navigation…Where Have You Gone?
January 29th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | Geocache Diet
It has been 2 weeks since I finished the Geocache Diet and I have found a grand total of two geocaches since then. I have found all of the caches near by and I have decided to stay close to home for a little while…but I really want to go out caching. There have …
Continue reading I Need to Go Geocaching…Now
January 26th, 2011 | Martin Pedersen | The Best Blogs  More and more employers are allowing their employees to work from home. In certain work situations working from home can provide financial and other benefits for both the employer and employee. Of course many, if not most, jobs are best to be done at a specific workplace but for many, especially backstage office employees, working …
Continue reading Benefits of Working From Home – Part One – My Story

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