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> perhaps in your twenties you prefer to be nomadic, but in your 40s you'd like to have the stable work hours of having teammates in your timezone I think rega
by blunte 6y ago
> perhaps in your twenties you prefer to be nomadic, but in your 40s you'd like to have the stable work hours of having teammates in your timezone
I think regardless of your age, you probably prefer to have teammates in your timezone - or at least have the ability to communicate with them reasonably easily (when you need them).
Regarding nomadic vs stable, I suspect that's more of a family/relationship factor rather than an age factor. With family and kids, stability is just easier. Just having a family with kids is a special challenge, so being a traveling family is a special challenge that few people seem to do (although I admire the ones who pull it off well! their kids get such a broad and dynamic taste of life early).
- eloisant 6y agoThe timezone question is also about your family status. When you're single it's OK to work late at night for meetings with a far away team, when you have kids and they go to school: - the 5pm-8pm time when they're awake and at home is a time you want to spend with your kids. Can be challenging when you're in Europe working with the US west coast, because that's precisely the best overlap time - you have to wake up anyway to send them to school, so you can't just move your sleep schedule However, when you do have this flexibility, sometimes the timezone difference can be helpful by splitting you day between one "communication period" (timezone overlap) and "no distraction period" (coworkers are asleep)
- benibela 6y ago>you probably prefer to have teammates in your timezone Probably, but not everyone at one location actually lives in the same timezone My personal timezone is shifted three hours to the west from everyone else here