Working Remotely

[Outback]

I work remotely and have since 2011. I am so much more efficient than I used to be in an office. We do video calls now more than ever and since I support the US it works out great. I do find that it's easy to work more than I should and since I support folks in all time zones, meetings are often set to accommodate the majority - earlier or later than I prefer. I cannot imagine getting up every day and driving in traffic to a job that I could easily do from home.

[powderburner]

Sales and work from home. I see customers when I need. I travel every other month to another part of my territory. Spend a few days seeing customers there. Then back to to the house.

Its awesome. makes life better.

Like others have said its hard sometimes with kids and wife. They forget just because you are home doesn't mean that you are free to run about.

[James]

For those that work from home.....do you actually work from HOME? I know a guy who has permission to work from home but he is never home. Not saying he doesn't get work done but it will be traveling around the country with his wife, going hunting, fishing, camping...... Not sure what he will do if they ask him to go look at a job or run up to the office for something and he is in another state.

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[tx_basser]

Been with Verizon for 25 years, and been working remotely for probably 20 of them. We normally would go into the office twice a week, everybody would meet, lunch, go to gym, chit chat, etc... Have not been into one the last 4 years. They have said we need to re-start going back to office at least a few times a month. They converted most of our office space to what is call "Hotel" where you reserve a workspace online. It is actually kind of neat as you can reserve different areas if you find some areas that are too noisy to work.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

My wife wants me to get a work from home job after my recent events as a mechanic posted in another thread. Does anyone have any leads or recommendations on where to start. Maybe even some openings yall know about.

[hooligan]

My wife wants me to get a work from home job after my recent events as a mechanic posted in another thread. Does anyone have any leads or recommendations on where to start. Maybe even some openings yall know about.

Depends on what your skills and background are. Doesn’t help to recommend and IT or engineer role if you’re an English teacher. I saw your thread on a mechanic background, how can you translate that to a remote role?

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Depends on what your skills and background are. Doesn’t help to recommend and IT or engineer role if you’re an English teacher. I saw your thread on a mechanic background, how can you translate that to a remote role?

Honestly I have no idea never thought of a work from home job until now so not real sure if they have anything for that type of field.

[MassMan]

For those that work from home.....do you actually work from HOME? I know a guy who has permission to work from home but he is never home. Not saying he doesn't get work done but it will be traveling around the country with his wife, going hunting, fishing, camping...... Not sure what he will do if they ask him to go look at a job or run up to the office for something and he is in another state.

To combat this, the company I work for implemented a 24 hour rule. I must be able to make it to our home office in CO within 24 hours if needed. Easy enough since they're paying for that flight.

[Big Lee]

I haven't read all the Post. Keith should be along at some point. He mostly works from home.


I've done a 60/40 Split. 60 out in the field. 40 home. Then I've done 30 Field 70 home.

My thoughts. Make your home office. YOUR space. Not where family comes and goes. Uses it as their space. I know this sounds terrible. But.... when you walk into that room. It is work time. Not people coming and going. Using the printer. Looking for a Sharpie. It is your time to do YOUR job/career. Make it look like work.

If you have a corner desk. And the other corner is your Bow. Tackle box. TV. Moon pie stand. You will want to deviate to those things you love.

Same as family. If wife, kids, dogs mail man, whoever is walking through constantly. You want to spend time with them.

That was my biggest hurdle to learn how to navigate properly.

[awry]

Forgot one other negative, sometimes your family forget who your time belongs to when your working. It is pretty easy to train kids but hard to train wives. 911 being down in a major metropolis is nothing compared to a their crisis with the sink, missing keys, or trash.

LOL so true!

[stxhunter]

Working Remotely

I’ve been working from home since 2020 as a Data Analyst/ Data Scientist.

At first it was great not having to commute in, after a few months it was kinda boring staring at the same 3-4 walls/window all day long. My “commute” was from my bedroom to the office, it got old. After a few more months I really got used to the new routine, until work projects began requiring extra time and I’d have to work crazy hours and got burned out.

The new company I’m with is pretty flexible, we have a true hybrid work environment where we work mon/fri remote and are in office tue-thurs.

[Black Ice]

Not sure you can call what I do work from home but I only have to be at the office Monday and Wednesday from 8 to 9 am. Other reps have to be there 8 to 12 phone blocking.


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[CoolHandLuke]

Not sure you can call what I do work from home but I only have to be at the office Monday and Wednesday from 8 to 9 am. Other reps have to be there 8 to 12 phone blocking.


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That would considered outside sales? I did it for 16 years and we had meetings every Friday from 8-1. Mainly the same meeting every Friday but I usually needed to grab samples for the weekend or something for a customer.

[jdg13]

If you like the quiet and your job is just you doing things, then I can see where some like it. For me and what I do working remote is a pain in the rear. When covid hit we got sent home. I absolutely hated it. Only left the house once work was done and then had to fight all the IT issues involved with running resource intensive programs over a VPN. Dealing with folks who think just because microsoft teams lets you, it's ok to just call at any time. Now we give folks 2 days a week to work from home and it has it's own issues. I guess it's the new norm but I don't like it haha

[jerp]

I didn’t mind WFH during the pandemic shutdown because I brought home my desktop and two large monitors so it was business as usual. However on these snow days I’m trying to do the same things from a laptop which is cumbersome - partially because I’m not used to it