Write like Mark Twain, lying!

Who says that you can work with and learn just sitting at the table? In school, we now and then heard the cries, "Ivanov, sit exactly!", "Masha, put his elbow on the table!" And the other, more unpleasant in form and content. As a student, sometimes I managed to take a nap on the lecture with his head on the desk. And then what? open space office dress code and other restraints of freedom. However, if you are a man of creative profession, or have decided to drastically change the life and become a freelancer, you can work wherever you like.

House - this is not the office

If you are a designer, programmer, translator, writer, teacher of Japanese, it is not necessary to equip the traditional home office with a desk, chair and shelves. Personally, I have even the word 'office' cause allergies, and all of its attributes evoke nostalgia. At the same time the authors of books on personal effectiveness in one voice say:

Even if you work at home, you need to clearly distinguish between work and personal life: everything has its time and place.

Bulgakov's Transfiguration professor said: "I will have dinner in the dining room and operate in the operating room!". The same professor said he did not want to be like the famous dancer Isadora Duncan: "Maybe she's in the office lunch, and in the bathroom cuts rabbits. May be. But I'm not Isadora Duncan. "

Stop! Transfiguration, the doctor, and he belongs in the operating room, but we are creative people, and we are much closer to the spirit of Ms. Duncan! Who can forbid us to eat lunch in the office or working in the bedroom?

Work standing? Why not!

In recent fashion trend is work standing: Horror stories of doctors about hemorrhoids, prostatitis, and myocardial infarction in conjunction with authoritative opinions Experts on improving the productivity of "vertical" employees have already brought millions of furniture manufacturers. Among the followers of the sect of "vertical" workers - Twitter developer Alex Payne (Alex Payne), the writer Philip Roth (Philip Roth), former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (Donald Rumsfeld), editor of Lifehacker.com Jason Fitzpatrick (Jason Fitzpatrick) and many others. Tables, which are adjustable in height, various stands and other gadgets can be purchased on Amazon and Chinese sites.

Those who do not want to spend money on fancy furniture, come up with different kind of life hacking installation box from the vacuum cleaner on the desk. However, nothing is perfect, and already distributed timid voices about the fact that a long standing face varices, thrombosis and other scary "eskers". Who would doubt that?

Work - is generally a deadly thing.

'Horizontal' work

After hearing about the dangers of sitting and standing work, people began to think that we can work in the horizontal position. It turned out that the idea is not new: lying worked Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and Victor Hugo.

Pros "horizontal" work are obvious:

• It allows you to change the posture: lie down one side - turn over to the other, then on his back or stomach.
• It saves money: no need to buy office furniture.
• It saves space: not everyone has the opportunity, not to mention a separate room to allocate the work area at home two by two meters.

It is obvious that there are certain disadvantages: laying work would be unprofitable for the vision and posture. However, those who decided to carry out in a horizontal position over a third of life, but thinking about the health can buy a gadget that provides the optimal distance from the monitor to eye, like this "lazy" table.

Sluggard will save the world

The idea reclining operation is becoming more popular: a few years ago, Bernd Brunner (Bernd Brunner) published the book "The Art of Lying" (The Art of Lying Down), The basic idea of ​​which it is that the Western world can be reborn only when people start to spend more time in the horizontal position, rejecting competition, noise and bustle.

The author believes that in fact many work lying down, but somehow embarrassed to admit it.

Do not go to extremes

It is commonly thought that people who have "horizontal" work, lead a sedentary lifestyle, so you should from time to time to dilute the "horizontal" sedentary work and "vertical". You can combine the teaching by Skype with classes offline or a combination of translation "recumbent" projects with oral "vertical." Also do not forget about sports and work breaks.

Personally for me to work optimally lying - writing and translating on a comfortable sofa. I do not sit or stand, but happy to lie and go. After several hours, I usually go for a walk or to the pool. As a child, I still strove to lie down on the couch in an embrace with a textbook, but vigilant relatives always brought me back to the table.

The result - a certificate with threes and hatred of school. In his university years I was finally left alone, I became involved in lying. The result - a diploma and fond memories of the five student years.

I think the love of the reclining - a hereditary thing. My mother teaches English from the couch on Skype, and eldest son are preparing for the exam and teaches Chinese predominantly in a horizontal position.

I will not call the tables firewood chopped together and lie down on the couch, but maybe someone wants to change the workplace. In fact, not so important, you work sitting, lying or standing on your head. The main thing is that the work was a joy!