Flexible Working Life

The other day, my sister said ‘You don’t really work, do you?”
“What?!”  I said thinking of the many hours, day and night that I’m glued to this keyboard, “Of course I work!”
“Yeah,” She went on, “But not real work, not like where you have to be at a desk at a time and like, that’s it.”

Despite her thinking that my work is not ‘real’ work (whatever that is) she does have a point.
The perks of working at home are that I don’t have to be at this desk at 8am every morning.  But I don’t have to leave it at 6pm either and in fact, although this is a huge bonus, if I’m not careful I can find myself checking email constantly and writing well into the wee hours of the morning.
It’s this flexibility of working at home that I adore, but I think you have to draw the line somewhere, even if it’s really hard.
Looking at this post from Krunk4Ever, it seems it’s not just me.  And I thank the lord that I work at home and my commute to the office is  2 seconds!  (I sometimes listen to the traffic report to cheer myself up)
And this post from Manila Freelancer has some good tips.
No doubt about it, working at home is brilliant even though it has it’s down sides.   I’d rather work at home than anywhere else, but you do have to switch off and as the office is so close, I  can find that really hard.

Is that just me, I wonder as I’m still relatively new to this, or does everyone who works from home have the same problem?