Product Description

Do you work at home, or just dream about it? Jeff Berner shows the current or prospective home-office worker how to set up an efficient home office and provides the support for making this major life change. Both pragmatic and inspiring, The Joy of Working at Home tells how to make a living and a life.

Combining detailed, useful information with encouraging advice and anecdotes, the book gives numerous positive examples of individuals who have successfully made the transition. The author-himself a home-worker for many years-provides realistic methods for striking a healthy balance between business and personal life.

Drawing on the experiences of many home-based workers, this book helps solve the problems of self-discipline, financial insecurity, isolation, and interruptions. The Joy of Working from Home also addresses the practical aspects of running a business out of a home office, providing useful strategies for creating a business plan, low-cost marketing techniques, tips for networking in the community, ways to keep expenses down, down-to-earth advice about zoning and tax requirements, information on purchasing office equipment and supplies, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #768549 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 63 pages

From Scientific American
"Words of friendly advice and good cheer for the boss-when the office is your home and the boss is you."

From The New Yorker
"This is a practical, clearly written resource for those of us working from home. There is much good advice in it for entrepreneurs and other self-employed people."

Review
"Jeff Berner is the friend who teaches us how to stay free of the two biggest 'home office' traps: being lazy, and being workaholic. His conversational voice is a practical comfort for those who really do want to make a life while making a living." -- Robert Kriegel, Ph.D., consultant and speaker, author of The C Zone: Peak Performance Under Stress and If It Ain't Broke, Break It!

"Sometimes the answers we seek for the many problems of modern life are right in front of us. Jeff Berner teaches us a simple, direct route to greater personal fulfillment. It's our life. Jeff instructs us on how to spend it wisely." -- Paul Hawken, co-founder and former president, Smith & Hawken, and author of Growing a Business and The Ecology of Commerce

Customer Reviews

Help! I am trapped in my office!
I have worked from my home for the last 4 months and up until yesterday I felt like I was going out of my mind. I woke up in my office every morning and I went to sleep in my office every evening. I was stuck at home all day and there was no escape. That is, not until I purchased The Joy of Working From Home.

Jeff Berner's book is not only graphically superior to any business book I have ever read, but it is loaded with information on working from home. It covers how to avoid the evil temptations working from home presents, how to stay well organized, how to find clients and most importantly, how to get paid.

I realize that today is only my first day, but I have a feeling the rest of my life has changed for the better. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who finds themselves working from home. The author knows what he is talking about too. His clients include Nikon, Office Depot and Apple Computers.