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For reasons I won't get into, I went remote after working for a company for a couple years. What I gained in flexibility I lost in advancement opportunities. In my view, unless you're a very rare commodity, the workers closest to the organization are the ones most likely to be promoted.
If you value flexibility, work remotely. If you value advancement, it's probably best to stay at HQ (if that options is available to you).
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Anyone have an opinion about 4 days remote, 1 day in office? (The whole company doing this)
In The Netherlands this is really quite common.
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Starting next year, I plan on living in Thailand with girlfriend and daughter. From then on I plan to work remotely. We are currently building our house there and hopefully it will be finished around March. The house is pretty cheap and therefore will be paid for in full (no mortgage or loan). While I work remotely I will try to make savings of at least 300.000 USD in the next few years. These savings will be, for th…
This sounds like bliss to me. How did you get the citizenship of Thailand?
Working remotely and having more control over my schedule (they don't always come together) allowed me to work on my side project until it was making enough money to cover my living expenses. The only problem is that now, after running my own business for a few years, I cannot phantom the idea of going back to a regular job. In that sense, my career as an employee is over.
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Starting next year, I plan on living in Thailand with girlfriend and daughter. From then on I plan to work remotely. We are currently building our house there and hopefully it will be finished around March. The house is pretty cheap and therefore will be paid for in full (no mortgage or loan). While I work remotely I will try to make savings of at least 300.000 USD in the next few years. These savings will be, for th…
This sounds like bliss to me. How did you get the citizenship of Thailand?
Working remotely and having more control over my schedule (they don't always come together) allowed me to work on my side project until it was making enough money to cover my living expenses. The only problem is that now, after running my own business for a few years, I cannot phantom the idea of going back to a regular job. In that sense, my career as an employee is over.
After working for myself for > 30 years, and the last 10 remote - I think I am basically unemployable now. In the sense that, similar to yourself, I don't think I could ever work for someone again. All the niggly details about office work in a big organisation now horrifies me. I had to assist a colleague with a government tender he was submitting last month, and even after one meeting with a government committee, I…
Remote != home. If you lack social interaction or networking, join a co-working space.
This does rely on there being enough people to make co-working possible. I live in a town of 20000 in Belgium there's literally no-one doing remote work. There's a local company that's tried to open a co-working place. I'm the only one there. Going to the cafés in town in the mornings, again there's no-one else. Maybe two or three people over the course of a year.
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In The Netherlands this is really quite common.
+1 I know a couple of fellows from the Netherlands working 3d remote (or other jobs) + 2d in the office. Sounds perfect to me