Where can I find remote companies that pay SV salaries and don't adjust for local COL?
What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
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#162Why 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.
Who creates this culture?
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When you enjoy what you do and get paid well for it the math works out.
Totally agree with this, it does not have to be 8 hr exact. If you are working on something love then it is completely fine. We have all put in work in after hours and weekends. Plus it looks like he has very healthy routine of waking up early and going to the gym/yoga etc. I say in long run this is healthy.
No, I've never spent 13 hours on work in a single day, let alone decided it was normal to spend nearly 70 hours a week at work (assuming weekends off).
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why is there so much pressure on Americans to leave their family's home as soon as possible? It's purely cultural.
Who creates this culture?
Everyone in it, past present and future.
If you're in it, you're welcome to fight the collective billions of years that reinforce it. Seems unlikely, but not impossible. That's how culture works in general.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who creates this culture?
Everyone in it, past present and future. If you're in it, you're welcome to fight the collective billions of years that reinforce it. Seems unlikely, but not impossible. That's how culture works in general.
Billions of years? This whole "rise of the nuclear family" happened within the last 100 years, and not even that long.
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#166This is very interesting. A couple of years ago I was pretty sure that working from home was the ideal for me, but that was after being exposed to a series of either small, cramped offices with a bunch of people or large open offices with lots of people. What I have come to realize that I really want though, is what I had at the turn of the century; my own private office with a door to close. That provides the best balance for programmers IMHO. If you need to focus - close the door. If you need to coöperate - either go to a coworker's office or set up a meeting. If you just need to feel less isolated - leave the door open.
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People glorify traveling way, way too much. It's even trickled down into actual work. New grads from college somehow think management consulting's traveling every week is a fancy perk. What?
Different people enjoy different things. For some people, traveling is fulfilling and exhilarating. For other people being in unfamiliar settings with unfamiliar culture and language is much less fun. And even within that, some people can enjoy travel up to a certain point. Might be fun to travel for work once a month, but not for 3 out of 4 weeks. I traveling for my first job where I was gone 60-80% of the time and…
Yes, different people enjoy different things. I'm not claiming that nobody enjoys weekly work travel. I'm claiming that it's overly glorified - something like 80% of people will say "oh you're so lucky you get to do that!" when in reality only a fraction of them would enjoy it and most of them would hate it.
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You can be part of a community anywhere in the world. I have lots of equally remotely working kick-abouts here.
That's the problem, isn't it? With office colleagues, you don't have to go out of your way to find people. They're right there, they're obligated to be nice to you, and you're stuck with them for hours every day. That's just the basic recipe for building relationships With nomad work, the entire impetus falls on you to find a community and build connections. Easy for extroverts perhaps but not so easy for the rest of…
Depending on the people it's also the recipe for losing your mind slowly over time.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone in it, past present and future. If you're in it, you're welcome to fight the collective billions of years that reinforce it. Seems unlikely, but not impossible. That's how culture works in general.
Billions of years? This whole "rise of the nuclear family" happened within the last 100 years, and not even that long.
My bad, I missed a few words: I meant "billions of years of lived experience", as in millions of people * years living and reinforcing the culture at hand.
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#170Working remotely is fine as long as you are someone who has hobbies and interests.
It's usually an insult to say "take a hike," but in the remote working world, this activity is super important. Walk to the store, walk outside, join a hiking group, walk to the bar and grab a beer.
Or whatever your interest is, turn off the computer and do that during the evening, and try to get fresh air.
I spent a lot of time travelling / being a nomad. The article touches on a brutal reality of the experience, but most of us who's done this really don't talk about it. We just shrug and say we know how it goes.