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commuting 4 hours a day sounds like a pretty rubbish lifestyle, but if that is what it takes for a few weeks / months to bootstrap out of a bad situation, then
by shoo 11y ago
commuting 4 hours a day sounds like a pretty rubbish lifestyle, but if that is what it takes for a few weeks / months to bootstrap out of a bad situation, then it is at least doable. commute, save money & build up a little work history, find a place to rent/share much closer to work.
i suspect many organisations here in melbourne (including some of the larger enterprise-y ones that pay developers quite well) are too disorganised / old-fashioned to consider remote workers.
- imron 11y agoExactly. I have a friend currently commuting daily between Melbourne and Ballarat. It's a 2 hour door-to-door commute each way, but it means he's working in IT in Melbourne rather than a fruit shop in Ballarat (what he was doing until he found this job). He's planning to move to Melbourne as soon as feasible. To the author of the article, try finding remote work based in the US. The timezone isn't so bad if you find work on the West Coast - you get a few hours overlap in the Melbourne morning, Californian afternoon, which basically means you can wake up, have a meeting to discuss work for the day, work while your clients are asleep, provide an update to clients at the end of the day, which they get at the beginning of their day and which gives them time to provide feedback while you're sleeping, all ready for when you start the next day. It actually works out quite well.