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A lot of us have integrity. We would like part time work but are not willing to lie and steal from our employer to get it.
Employers are generally paying for your output not the hours spent.
These days remote often means work from home due to COVID in the time zone of the physical office. Presumably won't be remote forever.
Remote used to mean people would be working asynchronously, and it didn't matter where you were physically situated and what hours of the day you were online. Obviously this only tends to work for places that are results driven as opposed to ones that care about the number of hours you put in.
I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back. That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was stru…
I wish recruitment platforms would start classifying the level of remoteness instead of a blanket remote allowed statement. These days remote often means work from home due to COVID in the time zone of the physical office. Presumably won't be remote forever. Remote used to mean people would be working asynchronously, and it didn't matter where you were physically situated and what hours of the day you were online. Ob…
If there's isn't, then large moderated communities like HN and Stackoverflow are in an unique position to survey folks and help define these classes. If the "Who's Hiring" threads here adopted a "remote work classification" catalogue, I think it'd catch on easily
I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back. That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was stru…
What was the company?
This type of site is what always has me considering moving “up” in the stack. Remote work on either hardware or systems level programming (embedded) is almost non existent. Remote and not full-time is even rarer.
The trick is to do such things as your own business, i.e. freelancing or consulting (t's all in how you present it), doing projects for clients.
This can definitely work for hardware and systems level programming.
Then you set your own schedule and your own rules, and clients don't even expect you to come to their office. They expect you to have your own, and the "home office" engineering consultant is quite common.
I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back. That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was stru…
Wow that sounds great. Were you be able to charge overtime? And since you said "worked", what made you decide to stop popping back to the issues queue at this particular org?
I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back. That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was stru…
Oh good lord, just when I think I've found the perfect job, you have to go and shatter my comfortable illusions!
+1 Just for the name. Side quest is exactly what such a thing should be called.
Hmm.. It'a already the name of quite a popular side-loading app/store for VR games. https://sidequestvr.com/
Lol I thought that this was a spinoff of the sidequest app for the oculus quest (which is kind of an app store - really the main none for unofficial content). Even though the name is very well chosen, expect this confusion to come up more...