It sounds like working from home can even be more stressful. I've worked from home from time to time, and definitely, the wife always found ways to interrupt my work, so I would always end up renting a small office, thus ceasing my at home job.

On another note, I am a novice programmer, having finished the computer science program at my jr. college and I find programming to be rather interesting. But I was wondering if you could tell me if I'm going in the right direction. I have done a whole lot of personal projects, but I need something more structured, would you say the next step in my learning process would be to do work on github projects and download source code to be examined and hacked? I feel like I am at the second wall, I know all about loops and conditionals, methods and classes - all the Object Oriented stuff. I am just not sure where to go next to further my learning. Thank you.