Front-end Engineer and Tester. I have a course at https://learn.webdriver.io and I do free coding tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/medigerati/
If you already have an 'in-office' job, you can start by asking to work from home once or twice a week. Do that a few months until people are comfortable with it, then try 2-3 days a week. Again, go for a few months then see if you can do just one day a week in the office.
Heads up though that this is typically where people start raising a fuss about it all. They can handle 2-3 days, but when you're usually not there, they start getting annoyed with it (Through no fault of your own). I could write up an entire post about my experiences in this arena; unfortunately most of it wasn't fun for me.
The other thing to note is that remote work is highly competitive, since the candidate pool is so much larger. You've got to apply to a lot more jobs and deal with a lot more rejection if you want to find a remote job.
In my previous gig this "slow move to remote" was more possible. In my current it's not. So I'm asking less about transitioning to remote from my day job and more about where to find these genuinely remote job listings for a completely new role. Ideas?
Front-end Engineer and Tester. I have a course at https://learn.webdriver.io and I do free coding tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/medigerati/
So how do I go about finding these unicorn remote working jobs?
If you already have an 'in-office' job, you can start by asking to work from home once or twice a week. Do that a few months until people are comfortable with it, then try 2-3 days a week. Again, go for a few months then see if you can do just one day a week in the office.
Heads up though that this is typically where people start raising a fuss about it all. They can handle 2-3 days, but when you're usually not there, they start getting annoyed with it (Through no fault of your own). I could write up an entire post about my experiences in this arena; unfortunately most of it wasn't fun for me.
The other thing to note is that remote work is highly competitive, since the candidate pool is so much larger. You've got to apply to a lot more jobs and deal with a lot more rejection if you want to find a remote job.
In my previous gig this "slow move to remote" was more possible. In my current it's not. So I'm asking less about transitioning to remote from my day job and more about where to find these genuinely remote job listings for a completely new role. Ideas?
try remoteok.io, weworkremotely.com and you can also search the stack overflow job board for remote-only positions.