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I think significant efforts are required from the team & company to make remote jobs possible and convenient, so its important to find a company that have remote-friendly workflow.
In case, anyone here is looking an interesting node.js remote experience, can email me.
Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
state taxes: I initially moved to FL where there is no state income tax. I have a FL driver's license and mailing address. In FL, you do not have to file anything.
federal taxes: I will qualify for FEIE [0] by being outside of the USA for the qualifying amount of time which basically means I do not have to pay federal income tax on my first ~$105k, but I still need to pay FICA.
In theory, most countries that I visit, I probably should be paying their taxes, but since my money only stays in America, the risk of getting caught is very low.
It is my understanding that there are things that can be done to get your taxes down to 0% if I was a contractor, but I don't make enough for me to take advantage of that.
[0] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
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I was able to get a remote job at my current employer without any prior remote experience. As long as you are a more senior developer, it's assumed that you have the self-discipline to do good work remotely. We're currently hiring too if you have a background that fits. https://jobs.lever.co/sonatype
Are you actually hiring? I applied for a position at Sonatype (which appears to still be open) about a month ago and got an automated rejection email the same day. No offense, but I can only assume your company is engaged in either a resume-collection exercise or some sort of purple squirrel hunt.
I found a remote job this year on https://angel.co/ This article seems like an excellent resource, but it doesn't get into the drive you need to find a remote job (at least early in your career like me). When I started looking for remote jobs online, it took me over six months to finally land the right job. What articles like this don't emphasize enough is when you're applying for remote jobs, you're competing agains…
when a US employer lists "anywhere" under location, this pretty much implies "anywhere in the US".
it's a pretty major ordeal for a US company to directly hire a foreign individual especially remotely, which is why if you look on job boards and see an advertised salary way lower than what a US-based candidate would be asking for - it's almost always advertised by a proxy company who deals with paperwork etc. from what I've seen on major job boards these account for ~20% of remote job ads.
that said - I agree that competition for remote jobs is more intense because there's less of these out there and plenty of ppl interested in getting one even if they have a job but it forces them to go to the office.
Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
Great question. I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor. I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last…
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Hope your code cleanup is more “decent” than your spelling.
That was completely uncalled for.
Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…
Not an instant solution, but over time can lead to the experience you need.
Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…
Couchbase is happy to hire remote workers, even without previous remote experience. I've worked for Couchbase for a year and a half now, and it's a nice place. We're a mature startup building a NoSQL database, headed for IPO soon (within a year or two). And we're hiring: https://www.couchbase.com/careers/open-positions
To be a remote team leader means that you are limited to companies that have all of their developers remote.
Basically any kind of management position will limit you to apply to companies that are 100% or mostly remote and there aren't many companies like that yet.
Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
Great question. I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor. I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last…
Interesting, got any more info or links on that? Maybe even to relevant Thai government sites where one can follow up on the developments on this later?