Working from home is not as great as it sounds

Working from home is not as great as it sounds Maybe  I actually do like working from home but Im not liking it now because Im not home. And Im not working. Im finding a cello teacher. Since the  last teacher died, we are traveling all over the country navigating the world of cello teachers:  Claremont, Chicago, Santa Monica, and now Aspen. My son  sometimes says out loud what everyone is thinking: Wow, this is insane. But theres nothing like getting to a new hotel and finding out its next to a PokeStop  to make him fine  with all the travel. I have pictures from our trips this summer, but I send them to Melissa who is my  photo editor, and  its like sending the pictures to a black hole. She waits until she has 200 pictures from me and then she edits them like a year later. I m sure she would edit  my photos faster if she didnt work from home. One  reason psychologists recommend only periodic working from home is because its difficult to be productive. I tried someone else to edit  photos, but he  threw out a great picture of my oldest son saying goodbye to his biology tutor as she goes off to college, and kept a picture of me with a double chin so big it looked  like a brisket hanging off a cow. Melissa pointed out that the new editor did not know my  family personally and he was just editing to make an interesting picture. He did not care about importance of farewells and fatness on the blog. So fine, Melissa  is right. And we agreed she would edit the pictures of family, because she cares, and someone else would do other stuff. Which is why you are seeing Pokemon at the beach instead of my sons at the beach. Although to be honest, my sons  did not swim. They just got their street clothes wet catching water-based Pokemon. A lot of our cello  travel is so we can meet the right people to find out about how to get to other people. Thats ostensibly  a lesson in networking, but  its a very specific type of networking: you make the other person feel valuable, because they are. I remember the first time I wrote about research that says people who ask for advice do better in their careers. I thought to myself, This is why Im so successful. I ask so many questions. Later,  I was older, still noticing research to show that people who ask good questions are the most successful. And I thought to myself, Thats why I am able to identify  star performers so quickly, because I see them asking good questions. I just read more research about asking questions.  For a lot of people it  feels like  asking for help. And I think older peoples careers stagnate because they dont want to ask for help. So since I dont want to feel  old, what do you think I should do about photo editing? Should I be bold  and crop stuff myself in Photoshop? Should I trust someone else to keep me looking thin? Im sick of fighting with Melissa. This would be a great time for a picture of us  fighting.  Melissa met me in Santa Monica last week, and I took pictures while she was  yelling at  me about how  I dont need more photos in order to write posts. Do you think I should  just keep publishing  Pokemon GO photos to remind everyone that Melissa is too slow with my photos? That was  an example of a bad question that will not lead to success. Its a leading question. And a disingenuous question. But its also a passive-aggressive question, so it feels good. At least in the moment. And anyway, if all I cared about was success, youd hate reading this blog. Tonight is the first live session of my course about  personality type  and dating. (Sign up!)  My son  has tickets for  the Aspen Music Festival which is the same time as the webinar. So Ill drop him off at  the concert and do the webinar in a quiet spot, with a great view, that  you  wont see until  Melissa is good and ready. People will say they are sorry I had  to miss the concert. But I love the webinars because I love talking with the people in the webinar. I miss having a job where I talk with people all day. Cassie has an investor she meets every week. When he put money into her company I told  her its important to meet with  investors because  good startup founders are always asking good questions of smart people. But  hes stupid. He  doesnt want to put more money into the company but he still wants to meet with her. I am outraged. I tell her there is no point in meeting with him if hes not part of the future of the company. She says she meets with him because she works from home and theres no one else she has a meeting with, ever. I get it. Not everyone likes meetings. But for people who like to hear themselves talk,  for people who think out loud, for people like me and Cassie, meetings are fun. Cassie has a theory that all people  will work  from home in the future. But I dont think soits too lonely. Look, Inc magazine says its lonely, Forbes says its lonely, and these articles are written by freelancers who presumably choose to work from home. (They probably wrote  the articles at a co-working space, because most people who join co-working spaces do it to have personal interaction.) What people really  want is  flexible hours, and if they dont say theyre working from home, they cant get paid to do a webinar about dating and marriage at the Aspen Music Festival. Hey, and wait. Heres one more picture: To annoy Melissa. Because I think fighting with Melissa is like Cassie  meeting with her investor:   stupid and unnecessary but the only way to have consistent contact with a co-worker.