Working from home for Sun is interesting.   Living on a horse farm is interesting.   Combining the two is Very Interesting.

Thursday mornings are a good example of the interesting work / home mix.   I have a 9:30 am concall, followed directly by a 10:30 am concall that runs to around noontime.   Breakfast is fed to the horses well before the first concall.   My breakfast follows.   Then the concalls.   Lunch is fed to the horses after the second call.   And, if I'm responsible for cleaning stables, it is done during my lunch break.   The work day resumes until around 4 or 5 when the horses get more attention and food.   Then more work.   Then dinner for humans.   Maybe ride.   Maybe more email.   And horses again before bedtime.   The schedule is a constant mixing of work and horses.

People working from home no doubt know what I mean.   Especially those with young children.   Sun gets an hour.   The kids get 15 minutes.   Sun gets 2 hours.   The kids get lunch.   Sun gets another hour or two.   The dog gets walked.   Sun gets more time.   The kids get driven somewhere.   It's so far removed from the fixed 9 to 5 working hours of previous decades.

For me, working from home when I know my horses were in a pasture out of my sight but only 100's of feet away presented a problem which needed resolving.   I wanted to be able to see my horses and know what they were up to and that they were safe.   That is where technology really kicked in to improve my quality of worklife.

With our home now set up with a wireless network, a handful of computers, and wireless webcams, we can now monitor the horses while working.   In fact, we can go to the local Sun office, or the Bangalore office even!, and monitor the horses, the house, the arenas, basically everything.   We are wired up.   We have a horse farm with a difference.

Yup, we have the technology.   And it has helped make WFH way cool!