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Home-based contracting possible/What to specialise in?
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I work at home 3 to 5 days per week at the moment. Relevant factors are:
I had a personal recommendation to the client.
The client is a small consultancy.
The end clients done need me on site much.
It is not a technical role.The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
George Frederic Watts
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thanks!
Hello everybody
thank you very much for your helpful replies. I think I see much clearer now, working from home IS possible, but you've got be good at hustling, networking, building trusted relationships etc.
The thing is that I haven't really networked much so far and will have to learn it. I'm a bit unsure as to where to start, it's all a but fuzzy. Maybe by going to networking events in London?
Anyway, thank you very much again! I might post again once I've done my homework and know what exactly I'd like to know.
cheerio
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A sockie is a sockpuppet. If you don't know what this is, try here.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by rurallife View PostHaha, no I'm not a sockpuppet! But thanks for clarifying."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyWFH isn't necessarily the easy option.Comment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostDamn right. As someone who only WFH, there are some pretty big downsides, all predictable, but nonetheless. No matter how disciplined you might be, there's a tendency to let that flexibility blur any distinction you might previously have enjoyed between work and life. I tend to put in hours at odd times, depending on how I feel, work weekends fairly often, work for 30 mins while something is burning in the oven etc. Drawing a clear distinction may work for a few months, but you need to be undistractible to maintain that. Also, without deadlines, it's tough to keep the motivation, so you need to have those. And if you need regular human interaction, it isn't for you. The upsides are predictable too, though. On balance, I'd prefer to have a mixture of onsite and offsite work (not weekly, but separated but a few months), whereas a few years ago my preference might have been to WFH only. If you have young kids (I don't), the pull may be stronger, but I don't think that would make things any easier, and possibly the reverse.
I also found it difficult to persuade retired family members that I was "at work FFS!", as they kept calling in to see how I was, when I actually had to be on a conf call.
It's also difficult for your client's employees to understand that you are really busy, when they don't see you in the office. You get called non-stop because they can't SEE you're really busy. When you're in the office, people can see the steam coming off the keyboard or hear you smacking the display in a rage.Don't believe it, until you see it!Comment
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Originally posted by darrylmg View PostThis is very true.
I also found it difficult to persuade retired family members that I was "at work FFS!", as they kept calling in to see how I was, when I actually had to be on a conf call.
It's also difficult for your client's employees to understand that you are really busy, when they don't see you in the office. You get called non-stop because they can't SEE you're really busy. When you're in the office, people can see the steam coming off the keyboard or hear you smacking the display in a rage.
I did 2 years working from home, but a lot of the clients staff worked remotely and most of the tech resources on my projects were a lot closer to me than their Bracknell office.
If the client is comfortable and is OK with dealing with results not a bum on a seat it's great, but you need to be capable of working remotely and having the necessary discipline.Comment
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