Nadiah Alwi

These days, many people do their work from home. It’s done remotely using the computer and the net. Not only part time jobs. But also full time ones.

I’ve done both.

In full time remote jobs, written communication is highly important. ‘Coz everything is done by email, YM, and other oneline devices.

It’s quite challenging, you know. You have to make everything clear simply by words. No gesture, no expression, nothing. Only words between you and those other people.

Many might think that it’s easy peasy. But it’s actually risky. Especially with those who don’t have the same level of understanding with you. It’s a hard hard work. You might be struggling.

What to do then? Make sure that your co-workers are on the same level of understanding with you. It helps minimize misunderstandings among you. It doesn’t mean that there will be no miss-communication at all. There might be some. But at least, you don’t have to get stressed every time you try to communicate with them.

Work remotely? It’s possible. With certain kind of people .

Finally, I’ve got a decent pic of my SOHO. It was taken this morning, after I cleaned it up of course. Yesterday it was a mess…you know deadline and all.

I still need to add stuff here and there such as shelves where I can put dictionaries and other books to help me work. But for the time being it’s not so bad.

Love this corner so much!

As we all know, I am a WAHM (Work at Home Mom). So, having a small space where I can work at home (or what people call SOHO) is a must.

I’ve been browsing for simple, cool, and cute design for SOHO. Here are some of them:

I have five more designs that I bookmarked yesterday. Will share it at part two. Now, I gotta go back to my translation. Still 10 pages to go today. And, I will have to go to my in-laws for breakfasting this evening.

To see more designs you can also click each pictures up there, they will lead you to the sites that I visited to get them.

Just now, I met my Dad, a man of almost 63 years old with his past long experience as an employee.

While me, I’m a work at home mom. For the time being, I’m not planning to go back working at the office after being sent home last February because the company was in crisis.

And, you know what he asked me?

“Don’t you apply again?”

I was silent for a few seconds. Then, I answered, “No.”

“Why?”

“If I do apply and get hired again, I can’t take other jobs the way I do now.”

Currently I work for someone, building an online store. I only work from Monday to Wednesday, 9 to 5, from home. So, Thursday to Sunday, I can take other jobs — mostly translating.

My Dad was speechless. He knows that when I made my decision, no one can change that but me.

So, hopefully, my plan works, so he doesn’t ask again. I know he was only being a caring Dad.

And, I went to an exhibition today. I learned that by being creative you can survive. You don’t have to work for other people. I love the idea.

Hope I can be THAT creative.