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How To Ruin Your Career While Working From Home

Hard lessons I learned working from home

Ifeanyi Omoike
3 min readMar 12, 2018

I always dreamed of working from home. I thought it would be the most amazing experience on earth. But I did and it was terrifying.

In 2016, I worked from home.

At first, life seemed beautiful. I was in heaven. However, after a while, it lost its allure. But I still preferred it to working in an office all day.

If you want to be successful, don’t work from home.

Okay, I don’t mean that.

You can be successful if you work from home. But there are things I learned the hard way not to do. If you do them, you are bound to fail.

Here are a few ways to work from home if you want to fail.

  1. Sleep all day. Don’t wake up in the morning. Don’t have your bath. Sleep away your life. Things will get done somehow and you will be a beautiful ninja at the end of the day.
  2. Watch TV all day. If you are going to sleep, you might as well inject some TV into your life. You deserve some relaxation.
  3. Eat, eat and eat. Eat to live your dreams. Eat to live. You only have one life to live. Don’t waste it not eating.
  4. Stay indoors all day. Don’t go out. Don’t meet people or…

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Ifeanyi Omoike
Ifeanyi Omoike

Written by Ifeanyi Omoike

Words from a girl who was too scared to dream but is living her dream anyway.

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