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Every case is different, best of luck!
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Plus one on remote work. I'm the only one in my company in my town and it makes me very productive.
This is the right answer. Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN but it's incredibly useful. Our entire development team is remote and wouldn't have it any other way.
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Plus one on remote work. I'm the only one in my company in my town and it makes me very productive.
This is the right answer. Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN but it's incredibly useful. Our entire development team is remote and wouldn't have it any other way.
I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
Read? Sounds like a sad place but if you're really in a place where you can 'play games on your phone and sleep' then create enough automation to meet what ever goals your manager sets for you, and then start learning more stuff. You might also find organizational dynamics and management books fun to see how they apply in your current situation. Some of the other folks there might be in the same boat you are, they ar…
I'm no lawyer (nor do I have any knowledge of how the law is different in Australia), but this might cause trouble when the employer asks whether trevaa used any of the company's resources to work on his side project. If he's using their time / lights / heat / AC / lunch / asking coworkers / etc, to read about topics that are directly applicable to his side project, that muddies things considerably even if he's other…
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This is the right answer. Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN but it's incredibly useful. Our entire development team is remote and wouldn't have it any other way.
Out of interest, what are your sources to find remote work?
Incidentally, general networking. I got my current contract via twitter. :-)
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This is the right answer. Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN but it's incredibly useful. Our entire development team is remote and wouldn't have it any other way.
>Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
It's quite the crazy paradox because in my mind's eye, if any group has the perfect combination of ability, globalized community, and gen-y go-getter attitude, it's Hacker News. Yet to my constant surprise people here tend to lean towards meatspace for some intangible but enthusiastically cited reason about productivity, and worse still, plenty of those people even praise cube farms.
It's most odd to me. Please be gentle with the down votes; I'm just expressing an observation.
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>Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
I certainly understand the previous statement regarding lukewarm reception. It's quite the crazy paradox because in my mind's eye, if any group has the perfect combination of ability, globalized community, and gen-y go-getter attitude, it's Hacker News. Yet to my constant surprise people here tend to lean towards meatspace for some intangible but enthusiastically cited reason about productivity, and worse still, plen…
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>Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
I certainly understand the previous statement regarding lukewarm reception. It's quite the crazy paradox because in my mind's eye, if any group has the perfect combination of ability, globalized community, and gen-y go-getter attitude, it's Hacker News. Yet to my constant surprise people here tend to lean towards meatspace for some intangible but enthusiastically cited reason about productivity, and worse still, plen…
You can work to overcome the remote communication barriers with skype, conference calls, on sites, slack/im, etc, but those are all learned behaviors that take some time to spin up on.
I think on HN there might also just be a SV/SF bias.
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I'm no lawyer (nor do I have any knowledge of how the law is different in Australia), but this might cause trouble when the employer asks whether trevaa used any of the company's resources to work on his side project. If he's using their time / lights / heat / AC / lunch / asking coworkers / etc, to read about topics that are directly applicable to his side project, that muddies things considerably even if he's other…
In any technical job you learn things that are useful in future jobs. I don't see how a lawyer could possibly object to "I was studying to improve my skills and enhance my value to the company". I certainly don't see how meditation would be better in this regard - that's just as much "using company time to get better at my side project", and there's less of a case that it helps you at your employer.
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In any technical job you learn things that are useful in future jobs. I don't see how a lawyer could possibly object to "I was studying to improve my skills and enhance my value to the company". I certainly don't see how meditation would be better in this regard - that's just as much "using company time to get better at my side project", and there's less of a case that it helps you at your employer.
That's advice definitely from someone who doesn't meditate regularly or has felt the benefits of doing so :).