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Sorry for terse list form, but I'm knackered after a long day and still have plenty to do. But I sympathize with your plight so here goes. #1 Diet and exercis
by lordbusiness 12y ago
Sorry for terse list form, but I'm knackered after a long day and still have plenty to do. But I sympathize with your plight so here goes.
#1 Diet and exercise. Healthy body, healthy mind.
#2 Take the paychecks. If you can phone it in at work, and your employer is undeserving, then make money for no mental effort.
#3 Consider full time remote work. This is more and more viable. You can work for an awesome company with driven and smart people right from your home, or local library, or beach in Tahiti.
#4 Exit strategy. Focus on maximizing money and ease to move into something else. Get planning, and be selfish and strategic.
- jchrisa 12y agoPlus one on remote work. I'm the only one in my company in my town and it makes me very productive.
- ianlevesque 12y agoThis is the right answer. Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN but it's incredibly useful. Our entire development team is remote and wouldn't have it any other way.
- S4M 12y agoOut of interest, what are your sources to find remote work?
- lordbusiness 12y agonomadjobs.io, weworkremotely.com, plenty of others. Incidentally, general networking. I got my current contract via twitter. :-)
- smeyer 12y ago>Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
- lordbusiness 12y agoI certainly understand the previous statement regarding lukewarm reception. It's quite the crazy paradox because in my mind's eye, if any group has the perfect combination of ability, globalized community, and gen-y go-getter attitude, it's Hacker News. Yet to my constant surprise people here tend to lean towards meatspace for some intangible but enthusiastically cited reason about productivity, and worse still, plenty of those people even praise cube farms. It's most odd to me. Please be gentle with the down votes; I'm just expressing an observation.
- ianlevesque 12y agoYes this has been my observation as well.
- mooreds 12y agoI've been part of both 'meatspace' and virtual teams. I think that remote work has huge advantages, but some disadvantages. The main disadvantage I see is that there's a barrier to communication. Of course, in the same room you have barriers to communication, but we're all attuned to how to overcome them. You can work to overcome the remote communication barriers with skype, conference calls, on sites, slack/im, etc, but those are all learned behaviors that take some time to spin up on. I think on HN there might also just be a SV/SF bias.