Go outside
I understand why Wework works so well. There must be a non negligible percentage of their clients who get a desk just so they can leave their homes and be around others.
6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
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Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#22I've worked remotely and I've worked in-house and I currently work a mix of the two but only because my current company's office is quite far away from where I live. With ten year professional experience in software in my rearview mirror I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much. To be your best you really do need to be in the office collaborating and practicing your people skills. Your pe…
> I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much
Let me fix that for you, [I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime I feel I missed out on so much because I discovered I'm really more social than introverted]
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#23I've worked remotely and I've worked in-house and I currently work a mix of the two but only because my current company's office is quite far away from where I live. With ten year professional experience in software in my rearview mirror I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much. To be your best you really do need to be in the office collaborating and practicing your people skills. Your pe…
> I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much Let me fix that for you, [I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime I feel I missed out on so much because I discovered I'm really more social than introverted]
Saying you're introverted is like saying you enjoy reading more than being active. Both are healthy and liking one more than the other is not an excuse not to make sure you do both regularly.
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#24In remote working, your git remote branch / pull request / staging app are your presence, not your chat's avatar with a green circle there.
You're responsible to reporting or asking what's obstacle or what's needed to discuss at early of the day or yesterday.
Your ideal employer can only ask you once at the end of the day how's work going, anything they can provide to make your works tomorrow non-blocking. It could have a few exception rarely.
That's from my little 3 years+ experience of remote working across 14-hours timezone difference.
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#25Great advice from this article in general, as I found from 6 years of working from home.
That said, there's a fine line of making yourself available and working too much.
The first position where I worked from home full time, my manager expected me to be available from 9am Eastern Time to 6pm Pacific Time to ensure I could support all available teams. His logic was that working from home allowed me to forgo my 3hrs of daily commuting and work longer hours. It was pretty clear this was not an ideal working environment.
The second position was actually harder to complain about. I worked for a non-profit with a global team of amazing people. The problem was you could log into IRC at any time and find a team member that you needed (and usually wanted) to talk to. It took discipline to say "enough" and walk away. Sometimes was harder than others, especially when everyone felt we were doing good things for the world.
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#26I am a recent remote developer and I found these insights to be very valuable, especially the "going out of your way to be human" one. I was in senior/lead position and part of my responsibilities were to mentor younger (professionally speaking) engineers and make sure the team is executing effectively. While these are not explicit responsibilities in my new gig, I wonder how would one go about doing them as a remote…
I find it useful to go out of our way to schedule free time in the form of video chats. Where we just talk about stuff and catch up until something that needs to be covered comes up naturally. That is an ordinary thing that happens face-to-face. Less-so remote, so you have to go out of your way.
> I find it useful to go out of our way to schedule free time in the form of video chats.
Feels a bit unnatural to me. It's one thing to chat while you and your teammate are on your coffee breaks, vs you have to schedule that with someone. I would not appreciate if a colleague wants to setup a hangout call to just, hang out.
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#277 years successfully working from home (4 for my employer, 3 years being self-employed). I have only one advice - Be responsible for your work and for yourself. > 1. Be as available as possible. I would highly discourage this advice. That is you setting up yourself for abuse. This happens with office employees or clients - you have to set limits and NOT respond even if you are right there. You can add a couple of hou…
Is the 3 years of self-employment after 4 years of remote?
If so, how did you transition to self-employed? I'm thinking of doing the same, but I'm having trouble sussing out a path to do so.
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#28Working remote right now and I love it. I am working sat/sun/mon/thue and it still works out with the team collaboration. Not as good as if I would be in the office though. I am simply not part of every discussion and today I was introduced to an API I absolutely would like to have had a discussion about before it was put into production.
Really interesting schedule. Could see something along those lines suiting me pretty well. Do many/any of you colleagues work weekends?
Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#29If you want to be treated equally you have to join an organization where the majority of workers are remote. Otherwise you run into crap like "make yourself available all the time". If you're the only remote employee, the OPs advice is pretty good, but I'd add "look for a real remote company" to it. Also... video chat? What's it for? In a remote context you get those very useful text based communication tools that co…
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Re: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime you miss out on so much Let me fix that for you, [I gotta say that by working remotely fulltime I feel I missed out on so much because I discovered I'm really more social than introverted]
Saying you're introverted is like saying you enjoy reading more than being active. Both are healthy and liking one more than the other is not an excuse not to make sure you do both regularly.
Enjoying an activity is not equitable to one's nature.