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What countries are good for this?
Well it's more limited right now but under normal circumstances most of southern Europe, Pacific Asia, New Zealand, European-associated Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Belize, etc, are all decent options. I spent several months working from the Canary Islands and other than my difficulties in mastering the local Spanish it was great.
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Not sure about other peoples experiences but all the best and smoothest projects of my career were done with groups who had good social cohesion, got on with each other, supported each other and most importantly socialized with each other. There is close to zero opportunity for free creative brainstorming in the workplace and all the true innovation we made came out of discussions outside of work at the pub. Definite…
The group ideas are only as good as the smartest member. All this chit chat talk is bullshit
Even the smartest members tend often to not realize the brilliance of a random idea they have (out of their list of many). A cohesive group of people that you trust and can bounce ideas off of is valuable, both in case of bad and good ideas.
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But you can get a coworking space in a cheaper location if that's where you want to live. (Or get a bigger place with room for an office.) Some people prefer working in a different location than they're living.
It won't be cheaper than my employer paying for an office. That's what I'm comparing to.
Both financially and in time spent.
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>Do you think taking care of children is a low status work that people have to do and not want to do? I know my wife certainly feels that way.
As long as she excepts that other women might have different feelings about the matter, she is completely entitled to her own. I just find it weird that when women prefer a career over raising children it is considered normal and when they prefer raising children it is viewed with suspicion (they must have been forced). Can't both preferences be equally valid and normal?
They can. They are to me.
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You're assuming that the ratio is disproportionate because people are being pushed out of the industry against their will. Some people get burned out, some people retire early, and some transition into management or start their own company. The industry has grown exponentially in the 20-40 years those people have been working. If the industry now is 10x the size it was in 2000 (arbitrary number), then 40 year old dev…
> Some people get burned out I'd say if management routinely burns out programmers and prevents them from having long careers, that in itself is a form of age discrimination. > If the industry now is 10x the size it was in 2000 (arbitrary number), then 40 year old developers should be 10% of the workforce, even discounting any other factors. IMO this seems to be an ageist assumption. If an industry is growing, why sh…
It's not management though that may be a part. Building complex systems with cutting (i.e., bleeding) edge technology is hard. A lot of projects fail, often with career consequences for the people in them. If you experience 2-3 of these you start to look around to see if there's an easier way to make a living.
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Simply put. Some people need “structure” (that can be in the form of peer pressure, accountability, visibility, etc). Without it they flounder. At work if someone is not mainly on their job, people will eventually come to know them as slackers. Working from home allows quite a few slackers to fly under the radar. It has parallels in learning. Some people are self paced self learners and can learn remotely. Some need…
My question is why would they perform better at the office? In your example their performance is the same and they become labeled as "slackers" by their co-worker and management. If we allow these people to perform poorly in the office, shouldn't we also allow them to perform poorly when they work remotely? If a manager is not providing adequate structure at the office, it seems unlikely that this would change regard…
If you spend the whole day watching Youtube in office, your boss/colleagues will notice that and ask questions, no one is going to do that when you are at home.
The really interesting thing here is the possibility of part-time work. I recently switched from full-time work to independent contracting, and have a single part-time contract while looking for a second. Honestly, part-time contracting work is really, really nice. The pay is more than enough to live on and I have a ton of free time which I am devoting to rock climbing, finally writing a bunch of blog posts, and lear…
I probably should not bother trying to describe this here because almost no comes on HN and admits they aren't highly compensated.
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No offense meant but, before Obamacare was enacted I had an excellent healthcare premium of $77 per month. Now comparable care is $400 per month. However Obamacare changed the scene, I dont support it.
Was $77 the entire price of the healthcare coverage? Or was that just the portion that you paid?
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No offense meant but, before Obamacare was enacted I had an excellent healthcare premium of $77 per month. Now comparable care is $400 per month. However Obamacare changed the scene, I dont support it.
You're also now 10 years older. Health insurance pricing never goes down as you get older, only up . That $77 might have been $150-200+ for someone your age now 10 years ago.
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Was $77 the entire price of the healthcare coverage? Or was that just the portion that you paid?
It was the entire portion, was not through an employer.
These plans are typically referred to as “junk insurance” but if you can’t afford or just don’t want a more comprehensive plan they’re better than nothing.