Hey friends. So in the three minutes podcast channel on the KCD Community

on Discord, I got a question from Sandrina about any tips for switchingfrom working in the office to working remotely. And I made that switchseveral years ago. I when I was working at Alianza, I worked from home acouple days out of the week sometimes and and then when I worked at PayPalpart of the the deal was I didn't want to move to California and so,Theysaid okay we can have you work remotely I was joining a team that washalfway remote anyway and so it ended up working out nicely that way thatwasn't a very normal thing to do and Sundrino also mentions that like a lotof people are kind of being forced into this remote environment and so itmakes things a little challenging so just to some tips for me on workingremote since I've been doing it for like five years now maybe more.

I think one of the things that,Helps me the most is being able to have a

designated space. I do have an office but I don't think you need an officefor this to be successful. So you have a special place that is just forwork and when you're there you're working because one of the big challengeswith working from home is there's not really a separation between life andwork.

It's all just kind of been in the same space. And so, it can be hard to

stop working or hard to start working. And so having a special place thatyou say,Okay when I'm in this position or in this spot of my home that isworking time. And when I leave this spot that is done with working time.

That helps a great deal. I have four children and so that can be a

challenge. My wife is a full-time mom and so she's able to take care of thekids, but of course the kids want to interrupt me throughout the day toshow me stuff and I'm more than happy to be interrupted by them when I'mable just like when you're in an office, you get interrupted by coworkersall the time telling you about like what happened in the soccer game.

Or whatever like different things that may or may not be relevant to your

actually work, and I see my kids interruptions as basically the same thingexcept. I actually care about them. I of course, I care about my coworkers,but I love my kids. So it's different. So, I don't stress over thoseinterruptions.

And in general, they're pretty respectful. If if they weren't like if my

family wasn't respectful my work time, then I would need to have aconversation with them about that and it does take a bit of a team effort.So if you're family isn't being respectful of your work time, then haveaConversation make that work.

All right, good luck.