Trying to work on my both my actual \"work\" repos, and my personal repos on git hub, from my computer.
The work account was set up first, and everything works flawl
You do not have to maintain two different accounts for personal and work. In fact, Github Recommends you maintain a single account and helps you merge both.
Follow the below link to merge if you decide there is no need to maintain multiple accounts.
https://help.github.com/articles/merging-multiple-user-accounts/