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What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
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#152Why is there so much pressure on Americans to leave their family's home as soon as possible? I lived with my parents and my two sisters in Mexico until I got married at 32 and I think that helped me avoid depression in my twenties. Had I've been alone in those years I think I would have killed myself. And apart for having moral support it was financially sound. When I was doing well with my freelance gigs I would con…
> Why is there so much pressure on Americans to leave their family's home as soon as possible? It's purely cultural.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Me, too. I love working remotely, and will hopefully never have to commute ever again. If I need a break, I step outside and garden, walk around the neighborhood, play with my son, etc. If I need social stimulation, I head into a coworking space or coffee shop, or just hop on Zoom with a coworker. I do miss pranks and foosball, though. But those aren't a big enough upside to justify all of the downsides of going…
>hopefully never have to commute ever again Yes! Honestly, my commute (probably 20 mins average) was laughable compared to anyone who works in the city. But even after good work days, getting stuck in traffic with other tired people who were driving poorly would absolutely kill my mood for the evening. I could leave work feeling energized and be absolutely dead by the time I got home. Not to mention that an extra 40…
In some places, you can combine the two; my commute is 50 mins, but 30 of those are on a bicycle, which is pretty nice.
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#154Blogger who never worked in an office and thinks remote work is moving to another country to be a nomad after you breakup with your S.O. False dichotomy.
Remote work from home is dissimilar from nomadic work.
Mental illness is a real problem but I don’t see the correlation.
Some kernels of good in there but 8 weeks vacation? Why not 12 weeks vacation and 3 hour work days. Irrational proposals.
Not a reasonable article in my opinion.
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#155I became a nomad on our 4-person team because of visa issues. It resulted in our company optimizing to be remote-first, and now post-visa-issues we're still all remote.
No question about it, the best part of being an all-remote team are the days when we get together to cowork in person, and it can't happen regularly enough. Funny how that works.
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#156There was an article about loneliness a few days ago, it’s not related to remote work, you can be lonely and working at an office and living in a city for years, I think it depends on the persons social skills, programmers are introverted and they will feel lonely if they don’t work on their relationships.
It also depends on your personality; some of us don't really get lonely, even with a bare minimum of social interaction (I can't say I've ever tried full isolation).
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#157Great article that really highlights the negative aspects of Digital Nomadism. I work with some folks that do this, and when we talk about it, they can't understand why I would want to just stay in my medium-sized city and travel a few times a year. Like, why wouldn't you want to spend 6 months a year in Thailand? It's such a no-brainer! And for me, it's just sort of mind-boggling that you'd jet set around the world.…
You can enjoy home, family and friends, AND work remotely. My "nomadism" allowed me, for example, to take my kids to school in the morning, or likewise meet them @home when they're back.
Nomad != remote.
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#158Why is there so much pressure on Americans to leave their family's home as soon as possible? I lived with my parents and my two sisters in Mexico until I got married at 32 and I think that helped me avoid depression in my twenties. Had I've been alone in those years I think I would have killed myself. And apart for having moral support it was financially sound. When I was doing well with my freelance gigs I would con…
Other comments have mentioned culture, individualism, etc. The society as a whole expects you to portray freedom and success. Financial, responsibility, mobility, and we're pretty selfish even to our family. I'd say, yes living with your parents as an adult is a negative stereotype, there's a stigma to it deep enough that most people just WANT to leave the nest. They also want freedom from their parents/rules/etc so they really just build an urge to leave the home through their teen years. I personally feel like american teens have a ton of rules and limitations. Not sure how it compares to other cultures, but I feel it's getting worse in the US and fear is a big driver IMO.
Parents can be rather selfish too, most can't wait until their kids turn 18 and leave the house. The want to live alone too. We like our personal space. It's common complaint for us Americans when non-USer's stand too close to us or otherwise invade our space. This is a common issue we encounter when standing in line at a store and the other patrons get too close to us. It makes us very uncomfortable and irritated. (This is a generalization of course, but I've had this conversation with dozens of people... it's a thing).
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
What type of work do your nomad friends do? Freelance design? Copywriting? Programming?
Mostly marketing/copywriting types and designers. Some programmers, although that seems to be rarer - could have something to do with what personalities are drawn to these professions.
> marketing
Ah, yes, that would indeed explain. And it certainly agrees with the accounts I've heard about my employer's Marketing department's abject stupidity.
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#160I wonder how much about remote work also applies to remote school, i.e., online education. The boredom and loneliness of trying to get something like a college degree remotely must be staggering.