Reply to: mad to consider perm?

[scooterscot]

My spa: http://onespa.com/pools.html

Yesterday for example I had a problem formulating a excel worksheet to provide a calculation. I just could not think how to do. So I went to the hydro pool relaxed closed my eyes and thought about the problem. I did not leave the pool unitl the problem was solved.

Of course you have to wave to the office workers accross the way you can see... I think it's a insurance company

I should have added, when I opened my eyes again there was the skinny number lying next to me in the bikini... it happens.. Occupational hazard... I think she said she was from zummerset

[ChimpMaster]

I've been working from home for the last year or so.......

Your comments are exactly what I would be doing. I have a 1.5 hour train journey each way, and while I have become accustomed to it (it's been 4 years now) , it takes up 15 hours of my life each week, and this backwards IB hardly ever lets anyone work from home.

I would much rather spend those 15 hours doing something more enjoyable than sitting on a packed train.

[scooterscot]

I've been working from home for the last year or so.

Something that's not been mentioned that I'm glad for is health. I've never felt better. In the office you get the heroes who come in insisting they are not ill sneezing and coughing bringing everyone else down with them. I've not how any ailments I can remember over the last year.

I go to the gym, spa really, when I feel like it and take a couple of hours at the time to, so relaxing. Then once back at the desk you're happy to work.

If you need to be in the office with a boss over your back to be motivated then your in the wrong job. Contracting for me is about lifestyle and winning clients over time and time again.

I regularly visit the client's site whether that Norway, the UK, where ever generally and I get to meet loads of people, but to be there everyday - nah!

[jim2406]

The working from home comments from those of you that have done it are interesting, and confirm my suspicions. i think i'd be unhappy.

i don't think i'm going to pursue it. contracting is going well so far, and i'm confident i can hold my own after the first contract. so, i think i'm going to stick with it!

thanks for the advice and thoughts everyone, much appreciated.

[beaker]

When I started out a wise contractor said to me "never leave your job for less money". I never did and now earn 5x more than I did 6 years ago

[aussielong]

I agree with that. Doing now and for a little bit longer, but never again.

done it for a year - never again - the shift of mood travelling home on the bus is good for your mental health. turning your home into an office is not fair on your partner - especially if you are doing stressful work - better to leave it in the office and wind down on the way home

equity can be golden handcuffs - i waited around for 3 years for my equity to kick in and just when it did, the company got sold as an "asset buyout" and my equity was worthless

[HairyArsedBloke]

long term working from home can be soul destroying.

I would not go back to it.

TM

I agree with that. Doing now and for a little bit longer, but never again.

[DiscoStu]

Equity can be worth flip all. I had it in Yahoo, AOL and Netscape. Made a bit out of it, but nowhere near as much as I would have done from contracting.

Unless you're that part-time masseusse who retired off the back of her several million dollars worth of Google shares

[b0redom]

Equity can be worth feck all. I had it in Yahoo, AOL and Netscape. Made a bit out of it, but nowhere near as much as I would have done from contracting.

[NoodleNWink]

Rumbled
I am Spartacus

[Spoiler]

When faced with difficult situations like this just think "what would AndyW do?"

Hmmm:
NoodleNWink
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And talking about AndyW.

Me thinks you've been here before.

[jim2406]

i've never done it long term. i enjoy the odd day from home on current contract, but that's mainly due to being able to stay up a bit later, or have a lie in.

i think long term it would, as you say, be soul destroying. i'd miss the interaction, possibly be 'out of the loop' on important issues, and have also found i've learned most from working alongside people better than me - something that wouldn't be there.

i think i've answered my own question...

current contract are poised to offer a 6 month+ extension any day now, which will make this a little easier to walk away from

[chris79]

As above - getting out the house is good for your mental and physical health. I spent a year in the house a few years ago, and whilst it sounds great in theory, after a while the reality is you become less motivated, rarely see real people except maybe the postman. Long term it is not really that good (again, stressing in my OWN opinion here). Roll out of bed into a chair, code, roll back into bed, repeat, etc.. it's not good.

Having said that it depends on your lifestyle, perhaps you can finish work at 5 then go out on the lash in a huge social environment every night of the week to compensate using the money you saved by not spending an average of £300 a week in petrol*.

*Figure taken from a recent unbias survey outside a local BP forecourt.

[themistry]

The working from home bit is the most tempting, and I would think that 50k is a good salary for .NET.

long term working from home can be soul destroying.

I would not go back to it.

TM

[ChimpMaster]

The working from home bit is the most tempting, and I would think that 50k is a good salary for .NET.