my experience so far with remote working

having to work remote from the office and keep working with co-workers as a software engineer might sound unusually and to some it might sound imposible

so how is it like to work remotely as a developer

at first, i thought that communication was going to be the main issues for remote working with the team i have been working with, but turns out it was not bad at all
remote working has some cons and pros that i found on my own perspective as i had a 2 weeks experience so far

some of the cons are that, you waste most of your time trying to comfort yourself with this new way of working
second cons is that for some people with poor communication skills, this might become super hard for them to get used to
third cons is slowing down the working progress and productivity cause of all the destruction you get when you are not at your working space

there is some pros that you get to enjoy as you work remote that i have encountered on my own prospective
first is that you get a lot of free time as you work on your own schedule but for procrastinators like me this might make you less productive
the second advantage is saving expenses like transport and more that you spend when working at the office

for some of you starting this new journey of working remote i would advise to read more on this working remote guide from skillCrush which will inform you more on how you can productively work remotely

and as you start this new journey of working remotely you have to learn to use the essential tools used in remote working as it all listed on creative boom blog, make sure you learn how to use them cause they will become your new way of working with your teammates and coworkers

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[zakwillis]

Hi there. Working from home. I did it on one contract for nine months, and have had roles where you get to do it adhoc (a day here or there). Finally, I have been working from home for 14 months on my property plafform (without reward (imminent hopefully).

Living in London, it wins on many counts.

• No travelling on the disgusting Central Line.
• You get far more work done (with later caveat).
• Less involvement in office politics (am a contractor).
• I can workout from home.
• You get to use your own bathroom. I seat near the head of facilities in one bank, women's bathrooms are more disgusting than men's. This is quite a problem, staff literally make dirty protests etc.

There are a lot of drawbacks but these are more manifest doing this for clients than for my own project.

• If you are out the office more, people will stab you in the back. Think Prisoner Dilemnma. There is the chance to be a good actor.
• You do more work than you should. This is quite annoying. One way to get around this is to have your normal office space and a work one if you can.
• There is still this bums on seats mentality.
• much harder to learn from others, less camaraderie.

Onto the truth

Working from home is the path towards self-autonomy and freedom from oppression (Except you can't leave the house). Once the revolution truly starts, a lot of scrum masters, middle-managers are going to really have to rethink their careers.
However, wfh still doesn't solve the problem that as technologists we are better collaborators than employees - look at various open-source blockchains. Bitcoin has a market cap of $130 billion in today's money. The federal reserve has done a good job of pushing Apple, Google, Microsoft over $1 trillion market cap.

Working in the office has probably been the source of a good percentage of adulthood friendships. Yet hearing people claim that they go to work for the social aspect makes me ill.

That 9 month contract. Had the other two developers turn on me because I tried to introduce the concept of using a common logging framework (this was in person). It can make some people paranoid I think. One developer got fired for sexual assault on a team member. We only met once every two weeks, but somehow he allegedly managed it. "You had one job Ronnie."