Work Wherever
Back in the day - 15 years ago or more - setting up a home-based business required a relatively high degree of planning. One needed to be able to carve out space to that they could work uninterrupted throughout the day. If a home-based entrepreneur was in fact serious about running a business from the home and was not simply trying to cover their tracks between jobs, a certain degree of investment also needed to take place.
Since the primary tool business up until the mid-90s was the telephone, most home-based entrepreneurs saw fit to add at least one phone line into the house. The people who were really serious about working from home installed up to four lines and bought the super duper multi-lined phone console from their local office supply store so they could have the latest and greatest of phone technology. The method of choice for transmitting documents from office to office was of course the fax machine. Serious home entrepreneurs had a dedicated fax line so that documents could be received 24/7 even when the entrepreneur was asleep.
By the mid-90s, most people already had access to a home computer as well as a printer which served as word processing tools. Documents could be created and printed in a relatively short period of time using products like Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. Large companies were already using internal e-mail systems, but even as late as 1995 the use of the Internet was still in its infancy. Going back another 10 years to 1985, only the most dedicated and hard-core technologists were even aware of the existence of the Internet.
Even as recently as the mid-80s, someone setting up a home office more than likely relied upon a typewriter for document creation as opposed to a computer. Desktop computers were already on the scene, but they were large, clunky affairs with miniscule storage and incredibly slow processors. Setting up a home office in the mid-1970s required no computer considerations whatsoever because they simply didn't exist. The home office was rounded out by the installation of several large filing cabinets and perhaps a postage machine.
All of that has changed. Today, a home office can be set up with a computer, Internet access and a bank account. Many home-based businesses don't even use paper at all anymore, only storing documents electronically. The best thing about running a home-based business today is that you can work whenever you want to work from wherever you happen to be. It's the ultimate employment freedom.
Since the primary tool business up until the mid-90s was the telephone, most home-based entrepreneurs saw fit to add at least one phone line into the house. The people who were really serious about working from home installed up to four lines and bought the super duper multi-lined phone console from their local office supply store so they could have the latest and greatest of phone technology. The method of choice for transmitting documents from office to office was of course the fax machine. Serious home entrepreneurs had a dedicated fax line so that documents could be received 24/7 even when the entrepreneur was asleep.
By the mid-90s, most people already had access to a home computer as well as a printer which served as word processing tools. Documents could be created and printed in a relatively short period of time using products like Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. Large companies were already using internal e-mail systems, but even as late as 1995 the use of the Internet was still in its infancy. Going back another 10 years to 1985, only the most dedicated and hard-core technologists were even aware of the existence of the Internet.
Even as recently as the mid-80s, someone setting up a home office more than likely relied upon a typewriter for document creation as opposed to a computer. Desktop computers were already on the scene, but they were large, clunky affairs with miniscule storage and incredibly slow processors. Setting up a home office in the mid-1970s required no computer considerations whatsoever because they simply didn't exist. The home office was rounded out by the installation of several large filing cabinets and perhaps a postage machine.
All of that has changed. Today, a home office can be set up with a computer, Internet access and a bank account. Many home-based businesses don't even use paper at all anymore, only storing documents electronically. The best thing about running a home-based business today is that you can work whenever you want to work from wherever you happen to be. It's the ultimate employment freedom.
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