some of the advice given when there are no Jobs:
Go back to School, get a degree.
Do a Home office.
Home office needs strict discipline, it usually ends up like this:
Posted on 03/17/2011 10:51:21 AM PDT by Slyscribe
You aren’t imagining things – your job has followed you home.
The fastest growing segment of home office workers is people regularly bringing home work with them, according to research firm IDC. Technology advances such as ubiquitous broadband and low-cost notebook PCs and smart phones are making it hard for workers to leave their jobs behind at day’s end, says IDC analyst Justin Jaffe.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...
Tech-as-tether has been a reality for at least a decade now.
Most working Americans are taking their work home with them. Except POTUS.
I am really, REALLY trying to get my company to allow me to work from home roughly 90% of the time with no luck. OTOH, I come in to work and leave every day completely empty handed.
And I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it.
I rarely see any of the people I work with and all meetings now are done via the phone and screen sharing.
Back in the 1980’s I called beepers “20th century ball and chain.”
I took outlook work email and schedule off my Mytouch a couple of months ago. It really freed up my private time.
They should have never stepped into an office to begin with. Work is what you do not where you do it.
That said, the economy sucks and thus people are working hard to maintain their current job.
Whenever I hear a union type bitch about their 40 hour work week I want to spit nails.
I took work home back when it was paper files. Nothing new here.
I work from home at least half the time.
no kidding?... where have these people been for last decade
The problem where I work is that the managers just don’t feel like managers if they don’t see faces every day.
Perhaps you could demonstrate a cost savings and your increased availability to them?
I telecommute 5 days a week but sometimes go into the office, like tomorrow morning.
My team is global and we work over tel/web conferences, email, IM and of course the phone.
Work is what you do not where you do it.
I am in Baghdad.
It works.
My husband brings home work every weekend, and puts in about 18 hours Saturday and Sunday. Nothing to do with newfangled technology, telecommuting, etc. There simply isn’t enough time to finish all that’s piled on him during the week at the office.
He was interviewing a young applicant with his newly acquired PhD and the kid asked him, “Will I really have to work 40 hours a week?!?” DH’s response: “If you’re lucky.”
>>The problem where I work is that the managers just don’t feel like managers if they don’t see faces every day.<<
I agree. Or, in my case, they need to feel they could see our faces if they needed to. I see my manager every week for a half hour person to person meeting. That’s it.
Funny, I can't find a single article you've "contributed." Your entire posting history is one-sentence teasers to IBD bloggers, posted under News. You haven't replied to a single thread.
Glad FR exists as your business platform.
>>Perhaps you could demonstrate a cost savings and your increased availability to them?<<
Tried it. I even supplied them with a PDF white paper quantifying and qualifying the benefits to both the company and employee of working from home. No luck. I think they are just not comfortable with the paradigm. Heck, they can even check that I am logged in via the OC indicator.
It’s important to me because my office is in Seattle, and I earn “Seattle wages” but my home is a small farm in central KY. I have to keep a small condo in Seattle from which I commute every day to the office and use my home more like a “timeshare” right now.
Why the excerpt?
Is there porn on the MySpace page you linked to?
AND it's posted in News/Activism.
Taking work home?
If they mean swiping office supplies, I’ve been doing that for years.
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