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My company is 100% remote. And I recall very clearly in the interview process one of the most important traits to succeed - Be self-aware. Everyone is different. Every new remote worker figures out what they need to do to make it work for themselves. And we do not all do the same things. But we all know ourselves well enough to try things, see how it works for ourselves, and figure out what changes we need to make it…
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What's your setup like that enables you to work from those crazy settings ?
As long as you have internet and a laptop, what's crazy about ANY setting?
For the last 2.5 years I've been working at DigitalOcean as a remote employee. DO has more than 50% of the staff remote. I think it's important that a large chunk of a company & team be remote, to be successful in the exercise, so that there be a forcing function to use asynchronous communications. It's been really life changing for me. We have a bunch of style of remotees; work from home, work from coffeeshop, work…
> then getting super depressive from loneliness I read this so often and can't understand it. It's like most people never get friends outside of work. Like they never grew up and are still in the 'I can only get friends at my school/class'-mindset from when they were young. The best people I know I met at places of my choosing, not at work, not at school. I work remote because my private life is so demanding and I co…
I don't think it's friends. It's the large number of causal acquaintances that most jobs deliver.
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Is this REAL remote (I can apply from any country) or "just within the US" remote? I checked the link you provided but this was not detailed.
It's REAL remote. I'm working a Software Engineer working for DigitalOcean from Turkey :)
For the last 2.5 years I've been working at DigitalOcean as a remote employee. DO has more than 50% of the staff remote. I think it's important that a large chunk of a company & team be remote, to be successful in the exercise, so that there be a forcing function to use asynchronous communications. It's been really life changing for me. We have a bunch of style of remotees; work from home, work from coffeeshop, work…
Out of curiosity, do you have kids ? I bet the answer is no. I envy you that you can do it. Having young kids makes things like that more complicated. Still possible, but not optimal.
I live a somewhat similar lifestyle( although not as extreme as gp ), I have 2 cats which that I leave with my girlfriend when I fly out.
>I envy you that you can do it.
I sometimes regret not having a structured lifestyle and warmth of family. I am envious of my friends with kids who are going with the flow of life and are not living in existential dread. It's a classic human dilemma of freedom vs security.
For the last 2.5 years I've been working at DigitalOcean as a remote employee. DO has more than 50% of the staff remote. I think it's important that a large chunk of a company & team be remote, to be successful in the exercise, so that there be a forcing function to use asynchronous communications. It's been really life changing for me. We have a bunch of style of remotees; work from home, work from coffeeshop, work…
Out of curiosity, do you have kids ? I bet the answer is no. I envy you that you can do it. Having young kids makes things like that more complicated. Still possible, but not optimal.
We tried to stay in each place for at least a week at a time.
We're wanting to settle down a little more now so we can have a stable social life and do more things like gardening, but I also know someone who has 3 kids and lives out of an rv with his family.
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As long as you have internet and a laptop, what's crazy about ANY setting?
Fair point. However not every setting has very good internet. It might be slow or not reliable, strategies to mitigate that would be very interesting to me.
Some basic tips: mosh shell, international 4G data plans, dvcs and local dev/testing vm (with vagrant etc) for working autonomously in chunks, etc.
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Out of curiosity, do you have kids ? I bet the answer is no. I envy you that you can do it. Having young kids makes things like that more complicated. Still possible, but not optimal.
I traveled like this with my family with 1 kid and a pregnant wife as well as with two young kids. I really enjoyed how having young kids acted as an ice breaker with people in other countries. We tried to stay in each place for at least a week at a time. We're wanting to settle down a little more now so we can have a stable social life and do more things like gardening, but I also know someone who has 3 kids and liv…