Hello Harold W. Russell,
-=> Quoting Harold W. Russell to Howard Scaggs <=-
 HWR> I am new to Fidonet. On the subject of Home office, I would like to
 HWR> know how people can work at home without constant interruptions. My
 HWR> wife's company is always mine. I cannot get 30 minutes of work in
 HWR> without an interruption of sorts.
You need an office or work area that is off limits to anything other than 
work.  Maintain regular office hours, and when someone interrupts those 
office hours, very gently request they treat you during those work hours just 
like they would treat you if you were at work downtown in a bank.
It also helps if you have an office phone, and ignore the house phone during 
office hours.
BTW, I am a lawyer as well as a Priest.  That makes for a double load of 
problems.  I have two lines in my law office:  one for the law office, one 
for the rectory (for those occasions when no one else is in the rectory).  
Being a Priest is priority, and lawyer second.  I have (after 20 years) 
trained my family to make "social calls" on the law office line when it is 
law office hours, and the rectory after law office hours.
I still occasionally have someone call on the rectory line and say something 
brilliant like, "I called your law office line but the line was busy so I 
called on the house line."  Since I must answer the rectory line no matter 
what I am doing (it is more important), everyone knows I will answer it if I 
am nearby. But, calling on the rectory line to socialize, when the law office 
line is busy, is idiotic, because when the law office line is busy, it 
obviously means I am on the phone and can not "socialize".  This used to be a 
daily occurrence, but, after pointing out the illogic, most of my family has 
finally "gotten the hang of it".
Just remember to be gentle, but to be very firm.
Good Luck,
Fr. Lee
    
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