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42 here, and still loving it. I work from home, and can work anywhere in Europe, as much or as little as I want (within reason). I don't have to put up with me

42 here, and still loving it. I work from home, and can work anywhere in Europe, as much or as little as I want (within reason). I don't have to put up with meetings and bullshit bosses. Above all, I still love programming for its puzzle-solving side, and for its non-stop accumulation of learning and experience. I'm currently having an awesome time in Barcelona, but I've lived in a beautiful city in France, by a beach in the Canary Islands, and in an 18th Century Norman Château (well, in its converted stable anyway). I'm sooooo glad I stuck to the coalface and didn't move into management, or I'd probably still be swearing at tourists on the tube every day.

andrewcooke 14y ago
oh good point - similar story - it made moving to / living in s. america possible when my s.o. got a permanent job here.
boothead 14y ago
How do you find remote work? Are you a contractor or permanent?
- radio4fan 14y ago
  I'm a one-man business doing web development. I get my work almost solely through contacts I made when I lived in London, though I left the UK in 2007. Sorry: probably not what you wanted to hear!
  - boothead 14y ago
    It's not that bad, I'm a web developer too and I work in London at the moment. With my day rate I could probably fund a year in a cheap part of the world on 6 months work, but it would definitely stretch further if I could top it up with some freelance work :-)
jcbrand 14y ago
Sounds awesome. This is probably one of the best things about being a programmer. You can work from home (or a coworking space) and live anywhere in the world. The article and others like it usually allude to soul-sucking management-heavy corporate environments. It's no surprise to me that people don't want to work there late into middle age (as programmers). I also work from home, have never worked in a corporate environment and probably never will.
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andrewcooke 14y ago

oh good point - similar story - it made moving to / living in s. america possible when my s.o. got a permanent job here.

boothead 14y ago

How do you find remote work? Are you a contractor or permanent?

radio4fan 14y ago
I'm a one-man business doing web development. I get my work almost solely through contacts I made when I lived in London, though I left the UK in 2007. Sorry: probably not what you wanted to hear!
- boothead 14y ago
  It's not that bad, I'm a web developer too and I work in London at the moment. With my day rate I could probably fund a year in a cheap part of the world on 6 months work, but it would definitely stretch further if I could top it up with some freelance work :-)

jcbrand 14y ago

Sounds awesome. This is probably one of the best things about being a programmer. You can work from home (or a coworking space) and live anywhere in the world. The article and others like it usually allude to soul-sucking management-heavy corporate environments. It's no surprise to me that people don't want to work there late into middle age (as programmers). I also work from home, have never worked in a corporate environment and probably never will.

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