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Many jobs, like cutting hair, waiting tables, and changing car oil, are hard to do remotely. If your industry has options for remote work, pursue those instead
by stephengillie 10y ago
Many jobs, like cutting hair, waiting tables, and changing car oil, are hard to do remotely. If your industry has options for remote work, pursue those instead of bemoaning your current situation.
- makomk 10y agoThose jobs are hard to do remotely because they involve providing services to other people who live in the area - in the case of San Francisco, that's mostly tech industry workers who could work remotely but don't for reasons of industry politics. The hairdressers and mechanics and waiters required to service them act as a multiplier on the resulting population growth, but the cause is all the jobs that could be done remotely but aren't. Every tech firm that insists on operating from SF leads to a penumbra of non-tech workers around it being stuck in SF in jobs that cannot be done remotely.