system: You are Russell Rico Rogers, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Home Office message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Connie Byrd about "home office organization".

They wrote:
> LC> CB>                   Great idea!
> LC>had to put an office together with no money to do so after being on
> Workers'
>Comp for 10 months, working for 8 months, then being on Unemployment for
>months.  There was nothing left.  The 8 months of steady income had not
>compensated for the time off work before I was off work again.  Found all
>sorts
>of ways to make a business-like working environment suitable to be seen by
>clients and business associates without having any money to spend on it.
>     Please! Tell me more!:::getting notebook to make
> notes:::
>you paint Elmo peeking through an orange windowframe on your shed and it
>makes
>you smile every time you see it, that's right for you to do.
>          Well, actually I am more a ziggy fan!<G> He
> understands me:)
>   It would
>irritate
>the hell out of me, so I would plant ivies to climb all over the shed and
>hang
>bird feeders from the eaves.
>              That would be beautiful! But then I'd
> never be alone , My
> mom is a bird watcher!
>             <snipping lots of good stuff for space
> sake>
>   Y.  Looking at your first
>buck
>is a great psychological boost, both when things are going well (look how
>we've come!) and when things are going badly (that's our first buck - we
>really
>are a real company)
>                Well I have thought it over and over
> and then some, I
> have decided that since the kids are not opposed to
> having to share a
> room(In fact they are overjoyed and I wonder where my
> *real* kids are!:)
> I am going to use a small bedroom just for my office
> and put all Jeffs
> stuff in own room, Then we will get a futon for the
> living room or just
> crash in sleeping bags in his "office" He has agreed
> to this and I
> really think that it will be better all the way around
> to have a place
> separate from all living quarters:) The room I will be
> using has a back
> door right across from the door so I intend to fix the
> area up so
> clients can have a entrance into the office without
> having to walk
> through the living room and my kids and thier friends
> in the summertime.
> LC>We're here to help one another run businesses from our homes.  If my
>experiences and thoughts help you, that's great, because the folk here
>helped me by sharing their ideas and thoughts.  It's not only the usable
>ideas
>themselves, it's the moral support, the feeling of being less alone than I
>seem
>to be, that has helped me so much.  I can't actually give back the help
>they've
>given me, but if I can hand it on in however small a way, that's great.
>                  well you've helped alot and I am
> looking forward to
> staying in this conference!
> By the way if you ever want to email too my address is
> lexmark@bright.net
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