Hi, I normally contract in MSBI, Oracle, .Net/.Net Core, focusing on a property platform at the moment. Have also been working hard on upgrading my limited company website too.
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."
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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.
There are a lot of drawbacks but these are more manifest doing this for clients than for my own project.
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."