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I don't give a crap about the industry. I'm only interested in remote jobs at this point for any industry. I guess I understand the reasons people give, wanting
by nonameiguess 3y ago
I don't give a crap about the industry. I'm only interested in remote jobs at this point for any industry. I guess I understand the reasons people give, wanting to leave the house, interact with co-workers, whatever, but the health benefits for me have been tremendous. Most of the spine and joint problems from not moving around enough gone. I run every day. I lift every day. I cook all of my own food from scratch and have eaten the healthiest I've ever eaten for years now. I sleep better. The quality of life impact is tremendous. My schedule is far more consistent. I get to sleep on time, wake up without an alarm, don't have to adhere to the schedule of other people.
Thankfully, as it stands, it would make no sense for me to go an office anyway. My company is 100% remote and the only "office" they have is a co-working space six states away from me that seats 10 people. But I'm a consultant anyway. I work for customers everywhere in the country. Where I'm physically located is irrelevant. I'm not going to move my entire family every few months to be where the next customer is, so remote is the only arrangement that even makes sense.
And it's not like this is some kind of new concept. I remember before I started doing this work, I was still in the Army and my last job was in the 1st CAV division headquarters. At the time, we had units in Estonia, Afghanistan, and Korea, and had to coordinate and meet with all of them. Obviously can't be in four countries at once. This happened from the division operations center, but it was still remote collaboration. When I first got, much of my early work was classified, so I worked from a SCIF. Had to go to the office, but many of the people I worked with were still not physically co-located. The were military and intelligence officers posted all over the country in different installations. We managed to work together perfectly fine even though I never met any of them.