3 ms·

I'd love to have just one full-time remote job. Anyone managing to do two at once more than makes up for any points lost on ethical grounds with the bonus poin

I'd love to have just one full-time remote job. Anyone managing to do two at once more than makes up for any points lost on ethical grounds with the bonus points for technical chops and sheer moxie. If ever were in such an enviable position, these are the potential pitfalls I might see. - The companies schedule mandatory meetings at the same time. - The companies schedule on-site days that make travel arrangements impossible. - Conflict of interest between companies. - The companies don't actually care, but you hide it anyway, and they care about that. - The companies do care, but you tell them, and they retaliate for the embarrassment. - Tax withholding comes out wrong, and you are fined for it. - Someone you met through both companies outs you. - One of your companies is acquired by or merged into the other. - Your life is converted to an 80s-style sitcom script, and you aren't even credited.

scalesolved 10y ago
Have you applied to lots of remote jobs? What's been the biggest hurdle for you in getting one?
- logfromblammo 10y ago
  A big hurdle has been the part where jobs advertised as remote turn out to be not really remote in the initial phone interview. Having to be on-site for M days per week or N weeks per quarter, or even requiring an initial on-site training period of L weeks, still puts a geographic limit on what I can actually accept. Either a lot of people are lying about remote work, or the companies that are truly remote don't want to interview me--possibly both. I haven't stopped applying, but my expectations have fallen pretty far since the first one I tried in 2008. That was Universal Mind, and they told me I didn't have enough experience in Adobe Flex to interview with them. I had worked with it for about 8 months at that point, which isn't bad for something released in 2004. So from my perspective, a lot of those companies seem to think that since they can hire from anywhere, they should only hire the top quintile of everyone, and my resume definitely doesn't radiate that rockstar aura.

scalesolved 10y ago

Have you applied to lots of remote jobs? What's been the biggest hurdle for you in getting one?

logfromblammo 10y ago
A big hurdle has been the part where jobs advertised as remote turn out to be not really remote in the initial phone interview. Having to be on-site for M days per week or N weeks per quarter, or even requiring an initial on-site training period of L weeks, still puts a geographic limit on what I can actually accept. Either a lot of people are lying about remote work, or the companies that are truly remote don't want to interview me--possibly both. I haven't stopped applying, but my expectations have fallen pretty far since the first one I tried in 2008. That was Universal Mind, and they told me I didn't have enough experience in Adobe Flex to interview with them. I had worked with it for about 8 months at that point, which isn't bad for something released in 2004. So from my perspective, a lot of those companies seem to think that since they can hire from anywhere, they should only hire the top quintile of everyone, and my resume definitely doesn't radiate that rockstar aura.