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Wow,this would be four weeks since joining ironman challenge.
Recently I was wondering about pros and cons of working as Perl developer in two ways:
1) In office, in a big company
2) by telecommuting or other way working in other place that the employer is
They have both advantages and disadvantages.
In office, advantages are: nice colleagues (I am lucky to have them now), free coffe and tea and milk and sugar and…, constant daily routine, a bit of fun/laughing/relax everyday (face it, noone works 100% of the time – it would be also bad for their creativity, physical and mental health etc – for example we are advise to stop looking at minitor every hour for about 5 minutes), fixed hours with some flexibility. Disadvantages: daily commute, trafic jams, earnings based on world region/country, even city.
Telecommute: higher earnings, possiblity to geoarbitrage (I mean earning in one country, living in another – cheaper, or even constantly travel – for more ideas on this see: 4HWW ), no commute, no traffic jams. Disadvantages: I assume you are paid on results – so if you screw up, you have free work overtime. No colleagues, no free coffe nor tea. Your home is your work – that is not good. Unless you rent some office space or use shared working place. Hard to say more, I never worked like this.
What do you think?
See also:
- Perl WTFs – last in function
- Website authorization – my solution
- Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – dbi, mysql
- Advertise Perl with Gabor
- Having nice background colors in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
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3 responses to “Working as perl developer – telecommuting”
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I mostly work hope (I’m the employer of myself) and I find it quite pleasant.
As you pointed out, the only disadvantage is that you are… home, so it becomes difficult to distinguish life at home from life at work. And it can be frustrating sometimes.
Michele.
I find that details of pay and working conditions can be orthogonal to the office/home thing. For example, you can have variable hours and remuneration by the hour in both cases, or fixed hours and salary in both places. I and/or colleagues have experienced both. So I find that the decision of office vs home is more a matter of, do you want to be physically located where your coworkers or clients are and have their commaderie and little things, or do you like to feel free to geoarbitrage.
I respect your honesty and your opinion. I’m a man. I never read comic books. I don’t know if i could have pointed to Iron Man in a lineup of comic book characters. And i don’t particularly like movies based on comic books. BUT I love Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges, so i decided to give the movie a chance.
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