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Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by throwaway26960 »

probablybroken wrote: post #98
k__ wrote: post #91

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> then getting super depressive from loneliness I read this so often and can't understand it. It's like most people never get friends outside of work. Like they never grew up and are still in the 'I can only get friends at my school/class'-mindset from when they were young. The best people I know I met at places of my choosing, not at work, not at school. I work remote because my private life is so demanding and I co…

I can only speak for myself, but it can be hard or impossible to talk to others without having a good reason to do so - i.e, that person being necessary to your current mission ( work ).

Create a good reason to talk to other people then. Maybe learn a new language. Now you have a reason to talk to people that speak the language you are learning.

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by sanderjd »

dwiel wrote: post #120
sanderjd wrote: post #110

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I'm curious: what did your kids do in a foreign country while you were working?

When one was only 1.5 years old, she mostly just stayed in a carrier on my wife's back while she explored the area, going on day trips and running errands like buying groceries (which in a foreign country can be fun on its own). When we had a 1 year old and a 3 year old, we were nomadic for about 2 months and we mostly found an airbnb for a week-month and drove on the weekends. During the day, the kids and wife would…

Nice, thanks for the info! Sounds like this would be hard if both parents want to work. (Of course, that's hard in general.)

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by edem »

zerr wrote: post #113
farslan wrote: post #88

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It's REAL remote. I'm working a Software Engineer working for DigitalOcean from Turkey :)

Important question: do they differentiate salaries according to your region? In other words, are you paid similarly as your North American peers or you get a Turkish salary?

Yea this is an interesting question.

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by johnward »

driverdan wrote: post #111
johnward wrote: post #94

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> like most people never get friends outside of work. 60 hour weeks and a young family will do that. I literally don't have a single friend outside of family members. I'm also suffering from bipolar depression but it's either support my family or be happy. I'd rather they be happy. I guess.

> 60 hour weeks There's your first problem. Stop overworking.

Required.

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by gnicholasgreen »

narendraj9 wrote: post #101
codingdave wrote: post #100

My company is 100% remote. And I recall very clearly in the interview process one of the most important traits to succeed - Be self-aware. Everyone is different. Every new remote worker figures out what they need to do to make it work for themselves. And we do not all do the same things. But we all know ourselves well enough to try things, see how it works for ourselves, and figure out what changes we need to make it…

What company is it? I am making a list of remote jobs that I can apply to.

I'm not OP, but check out workremotely.io

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by ENTP »

SyneRyder wrote: post #71
ENTP wrote: post #3

This echoes my current gig to a tee: worked at home for a couple of months, went stir crazy, found an office. For me, the first office space was a hipster cafe type place that was just too freaking noisy. I moved to a Regus office which was ok but Regus were awful so a few of us clubbed together and got a truly shared office with both closed and open spaces for different type of work. I can highly recommend this setu…

+1 to the comments about Regus. While some of the spaces are really well designed & in perfect locations, their billing systems were so broken that I got out of my contract as fast as I could. They couldn't even charge credit cards automatically each month, and they accidentally leaked their entire Australian client list in the To line of an email (then tried to fix it by using the Outlook "Recall This Message" featu…

I was on that email list. I was absolutrly livid. They also double charged me $2k+ twice. Will never work there again. What's your tips on Cafe's (if you are in Sydney)?

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by SyneRyder »

ENTP wrote: post #126
SyneRyder wrote: post #71

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+1 to the comments about Regus. While some of the spaces are really well designed & in perfect locations, their billing systems were so broken that I got out of my contract as fast as I could. They couldn't even charge credit cards automatically each month, and they accidentally leaked their entire Australian client list in the To line of an email (then tried to fix it by using the Outlook "Recall This Message" featu…

I was on that email list. I was absolutrly livid. They also double charged me $2k+ twice. Will never work there again. What's your tips on Cafe's (if you are in Sydney)?

Alas I'm in Perth, and I have terrible taste in coffee... I mostly work at Starbucks whenever I can. (Or Gloria Jeans, since we don't have Starbucks in Perth.) It's a while since I was last in Sydney.

If you're ever in Singapore I can recommend the 100th Starbucks in the financial district (at The Fullerton Waterboat House). Large space with lots of windows, a great view and not very busy. Terrible WiFi though, so tether to a cheap Singaporean 15GB SIM.

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by ENTP »

SyneRyder wrote: post #127
ENTP wrote: post #126

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I was on that email list. I was absolutrly livid. They also double charged me $2k+ twice. Will never work there again. What's your tips on Cafe's (if you are in Sydney)?

Alas I'm in Perth, and I have terrible taste in coffee... I mostly work at Starbucks whenever I can. (Or Gloria Jeans, since we don't have Starbucks in Perth.) It's a while since I was last in Sydney. If you're ever in Singapore I can recommend the 100th Starbucks in the financial district (at The Fullerton Waterboat House). Large space with lots of windows, a great view and not very busy. Terrible WiFi though, so te…

Thanks for the tips! Appreciate your time.

Re: Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health

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Post by dwiel »

sanderjd wrote: post #122
dwiel wrote: post #120

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When one was only 1.5 years old, she mostly just stayed in a carrier on my wife's back while she explored the area, going on day trips and running errands like buying groceries (which in a foreign country can be fun on its own). When we had a 1 year old and a 3 year old, we were nomadic for about 2 months and we mostly found an airbnb for a week-month and drove on the weekends. During the day, the kids and wife would…

Nice, thanks for the info! Sounds like this would be hard if both parents want to work. (Of course, that's hard in general.)

Yeah for sure, though one of the places we stayed at in Guatemala would have taken our daughter for an English-speaking preschool had we wanted, though it was an area with a lot of people who had immigrated from Europe and the us.
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