Comment by lionheart | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lionheart | Hacker News Reader

Startup founder (and sole employee) here.

Interesting poll, but at first I thought you meant "where" as in what location. That's a very interesting question that I'd like to hear answered. Especially if you're freelance, on your own, remote, or otherwise don't have an office to go to.

What I've noticed is that I can't seem to work in the same physical spot for more than 2 months in a row or so. After that all my creativity seems to drain out and I can't get anything done. As soon as I move to another spot, I'm back in business.

So I find myself hopping every 2-3 months between different coffee shops, tea shops, restaurants and coworking spaces in my area. I always wondered if anybody else has the same thing.

Sorry, this is kinda off-topic. Maybe I should make a work-location poll.

I have a similar experience. I work full time for a BigCo, so I have to work at finding spots off campus where I can go and comfortably code for an hour or so during lunch. It has been a non-trivial venture, living in a not-so-tech-friendly area.

After a while, I become apathetic to the place I am working at over lunch and need to move to keep interest... else I will just decide to skip the offsite work and sit at my BigCo desk and vegitate.

My experience has been the same, though I'm only working from these locations few hours a week on my side project.

Your comment made me wonder though about the the state of affairs at most workplaces. How we spend 8-9 hours chained to one desk and one office/location for months and years on end is to me, puzzling. I wonder what the results would be like if employees had the flexibility to work from wherever, for extended periods of time, back to their desk for a few months, and off again.

I've noticed the same thing, but found that I can get around it by simply moving to a different room in the same house. When I was doing my startup, I tended to move my primary workspace between living room floor, chair & makeshift desk, bed, and outside every month or two. And even working in a big company now, I've moved desks about 10 times since joining a year ago, and the longest I spent in any one location was about 7 months (and I felt pretty drained by the end of that).

I was confused too, so I decided to create the work-location: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146037

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