Working remotely, 4 years in • Hacker News Board

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by ratsimihah » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

blauditore wrote: post #125

jvns wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think on about 30% of my blog posts that end up on the hacker news front page: * someone refers to me as "he" * someone else corrects them to "she" * an extended argument ensues about whether "he" is a gender neutral pronoun, whether "they" is a gender neutral pronoun, whether it matters if you refer to a woman as "he" or not, whether the original author cares whether they're referred to as "he" or "she", and on an…

...and my initial question still isn't answered. :/

Have you read https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/06/06/working-remote/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/06/06/working-remote/ ?

There might be answers in there if not in this article.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by ataturk » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

harrygeez wrote: post #56

I just graduated from college any tips on landing the first remote work?

Don't? You are early in your career and the last thing you want is to be a ghost because ghosts are easily ignored/forgotten/dispensed with and that's not something a person early in their career wants.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by scarlac » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

It's great to hear that some people manage to love working remotely. In this case, there's /some/ difference in time zones (3h). Generally, people don't seem to mention the time zone difference in the commentary each time articles like this gets posted on HN, but I'd actually love to hear where people are working remote from/to, since there can literally be a night and day difference.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by riprock » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

Does Stripe (presumably where they work) still allow full-time remote work? I looked at their job board and it seems like none of the job posts are for remote positions.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by rsbartram » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

I lived and worked remotely for 3.5 years from Lima Peru and it was a life changing event. Learning how to generate income with just an internet connection and my sales and marketing skills I learned in my professional life was a process but have definitely paid off. Having control over your environment is a peaceful and rejuvenating process for your body. Discipline is probably the most important characteristic needed to work remotely. If you don't have it, get it or don't try it.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by jvns » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

riprock wrote: post #134

Does Stripe (presumably where they work) still allow full-time remote work? I looked at their job board and it seems like none of the job posts are for remote positions.

I can't speak for the job board, but there are dozens of full-time remote developers (including me, obviously), and I see remotes devs being hired frequently.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by criddell » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

ibz wrote: post #67

5+ years here. Definitely not looking back to go to an office. After doing the DN thing in Asia for a year, I bought a farm house in my home country in Europe and moved over here. Being able to live in nature instead of in a city is an amazing, life changing experience. I often have people over visiting me - either friends or couch surfers. Planning to AirBnB the barn as well, which I converted into a nice big loft.…

Is your internet connection fast and reliable?

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by thealfreds » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:26 PM UTC

bkovacev wrote: post #88

microcolonel wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These last couple weeks, and my first two years of work, I think I've hit my best groove by waking up at 06:00, optionally going for ~20-30 minutes in the gym, and jumping straight into work. When I delay eating until at least noon (so fasting for at least the eight hours I spend in bed, plus six or more waking hours in the morning), I tend to maintain a healthy body weight and feel little or no gnawing hunger. I'm c…

Fasting is actually something I have been doing as well lately that helped me maintain (and lose a bit) my weight properly and that one meal less a day meant a lot. Do you not feel the urge to always be online when you're working from home? Once I clock out I can't keep myself from checking emails/slack etc.

I ended up removing my email account from my phone and removing my work slack channels from my phone. At around 3-3:30pm I close my laptop and I'm done for the day (outside of a problem gnawing at me that I think of a solution for at 10pm haha).

But generally just tune out from work and make sure you are disconnected.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by markbnj » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

Almost 10 years for me. The main thing from this post I would emphasize is the point about the company culture. My current employer is all remote, and so support for and integration of remote engineers is natural for them. By contrast I worked at another small company where the engineering management admitted remote employees only reluctantly. Meetings were a nightmare, and the remote attendees could often not even hear or see what was going on. Every now and then the SVP in charge of the group would remind us all that having remote employees meant "twice the effort for half the results." This was the same person who told me during our interview that he only considered remote engineers because it wasn't possible to find good engineers in the small southern city they were located in ("they" meaning the company; the SVP himself was located on the west coast and commuted). Needless to say I didn't last long there.

Re: Working remotely, 4 years in

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Post by cpayne624 » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

brightball wrote: post #120

ganzolo wrote: post #78

I had a totally different experience from the author of this article. Maybe, this was due to the fact that I was working remotely for 4 years with different startups maniacs. Biggest issues were : - Nobody sees how much you are invested into your day to day work. They just see bunch of commits / builds and the little gray or green presence indicator on your messenger app. But if you are struggling for 3 days x 10 hou…

> Nobody sees how much you are invested into your day to day work. They just see bunch of commits / builds and the little gray or green presence indicator on your messenger app. But if you are struggling for 3 days x 10 hours per day to fix a bug, chances are high that nobody will realize this. What you just described is why it’s so important to have daily standups and an assumption that when people on a team finish…

I’d agree except for the I-will-interrupt-the-next-dude (chick) when I’m finished my story to pair part. Make it known that you’re available to pair if needed, but pairing as SOP would have me interviewing.