Whether you're an independent contractor, consultant, freelance writer, programmer or Web designer, you have options on where to work. Sure, you can do it out of your wired house, but distractions abound: morning TV, video games, staying in bed for an extra hour.

But get thee to a coffee shop and you find yourself becoming more productive. First, they have unlimited coffee, tea, and juice. Sure, you have to pay for them, but you have more options than the lone bottle of near-empty ketchup in your fridge or the couple of beers—and getting blitzed midday will do nothing to help your productivity. Working from a coffee shop, whether Starbucks or your hipper neighborhood spot, allows you to feel like you're going somewhere. You're not heading to an office, but you're likely to find a number of other people at your destination typing away on their laptops, reading the newspaper, or engaging in conversation—much like a real office.

But what makes this all possible is your ability to connect wirelessly to the Internet and engage with information. We're living in a Wi-Fi world, so where telecommuting may not have been doable in the past, today it's fairly common.

If you're the type of person who needs human interaction to feel more productive, places are sprouting all over the country where you can pay a monthly (and sometimes daily) fee to work out of an office. Chicago's Uptown Writer's Space and Paragraph in New York's Union Square neighborhood offer an escape for writer's who need to crank out a novel or other project, but aren't motivated to hunker down at home. For a monthly fee of around $100 a month, writers get access to not only shared space with like-minded folks, they get free W-Fi and other amenities.

This is actually part of a growing trend called Co-working, where independent contractors or consultants—or small companies with only a few employees—who in the past may otherwise have worked in a creative or collaborative environment can now gain access to shared space. A bonus of this is you get to work on your own projects, but have the water cooler aspect of a larger office. Another bonus? You may end up gaining contacts and new jobs from working in this type of setting. Co-working spaces, like the Conjunctured House in Austin, TX or Vancouver's WorkSpace, have popped up all over the U.S. and around the world. With various rental fees, these spaces offer super fast Internet service, copy machines, coffee, pool tables, and sometimes even massage services.

If you ever find that you're on the road or just need to work in a place that doesn't offer wireless connectivity, you should think of picking up a plug-and-play USB device, like the USB Connect Mercury from AT&T to get on a 3G wireless network wherever you are. Sure, there's a monthly fee involved, but it gives you extra freedom to connect anywhere you want to be.  Isn't that the whole point of Wi-Fi? You'll never want to work from an office again.