I have a love/hate relationship with working at home. I love the fact that I can work (my business) at any time of the day. Yet, I hate the fact that I can work my business any time of the day. You see I tend to work to much. I wake up and work at 3:00 a.m. If I wasn’t working at home I’d probably read or paint. I work first thing upon rising. I work after dinner. I know about the advantages of setting hours for working at home. But that’s sometimes a little easier said than done.

I love the fact that I am home with my kids all day long. I hate the fact that I am home with kids all day long. Don’t get me wrong this is one of the perks I really do love about having a home-based business. But I find that my kids resent that I am home, but not really home. I’m home, but on the phone, on a conference call, or working on the computer. They love my business, they respect my entrepreneurial spirit, but sometimes I think they wish for a mom that always had the laundry done, and regularly baked cookies like I use to. In other words I may be here physically, but not truly 100% here for them.

I love the friendships I’ve made as a result of my work-at-home business. I’ve met wonderful people that I wouldn’t have met without this business. But I do miss the sense of community you get with a corporate job.

Today I stumbled upon a post at lifehack.org, produced by some Open Source techies who have created a co-working community. Coworking is a cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents. You can see their video below.

Now I’m wondering if this would work for us stay-at-home working moms - something like a “Mom’s Cafe.” A place where we could work part-time, or even full-time if desired. I’m picturing a sunny lofty type of office where we could come in and work for a few hours a day, and then return home to our families leaving our business life behind us. I’m thinking perhaps their are quite a few of us BookWise associates, Pampered Chef representatives, Avon representatives, and the like that would perhaps love a place to set-up a shared office space.

So you work-at-home moms, what do you think? Do you see a benefit to this? Is this something that you could see yourself participating in.

You can find additional coworking information at technorati, at pbwiki.com, at podtech.net or the coworking community blog.

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