Not so much a point as a series of steps

For me the transition to woking completely from home has happened gradually - and after 8 years I may be about to drift backl into working at least some of the time in an office.

I've always hated commuting and got lucky when having gritted my teeth travelling to London for a year the company moved to an office just a 15 minute drive away. When our first son was born I went part-time and managed, just about, to keep this going through a company takeover, redundancy and no. 2 son's complete failure to sleep coupled with a horrible spell commuting from Reading to Portsmouth!

As time went on it got harder and harder to keep work into it's '3 day a week' compartment and the crunch came when I went after my bosses job as she was leaving. The company wanted me to do it, I wanted to do it, but we all knew that it was the kind of job that would 'eat your life' and it really wasn't something that could be done in 3 days a week.

I wasn't ready to go full time again, even though by this time I was in practice working almost every day even though I wasn't in the office. I came to the conclusion that the only way to move 'up' and retain a lifestyle that the whole family could cope with was to run my own business and manage my own work/life balance - which I suppose you could say was the turning point that started me working from home.