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My job before the pandemic was already partly home-based. I ran a prototyping/short run job shop. We would do anything from weird trophies for strange award ceremonies to product prototypes to obsolete unobtanium car parts...you name it. I would spend about half my week at home communicating with customers, ordering materials, drawing up plans in CAD, then spend the rest of the week in the shop actually making things.
A LOT of my design work was actually done standing in front of my couch folding bath towels. Or in the kitchen loading the dishwasher. Tasks like that gave me something to do with my hands while I could zone out and picture the thing I needed to build, turn it over in my mind, look at all the details, how does this part attach to that part? What materials are needed here? How many rivets do I need? etc. I could stop folding towels the second I wanted to sit at the computer and draw/write something.
What the owner of the company wanted to know: Did I get the job done by the deadline set by the customer? Did the job meet the customer's design specifications? Was it on or under budget? Long as the answers to those questions were "yes," all was well. Because that's what let us bill the customer and make money.