Telecommuting FTW!Follow

I'm still contracting in Maryland. After a month of working onsite and determining that everything I do can be done electronically, I decided to ask my director if I could start telecommuting.

She said she was ok with it as long as I worked onsite on Mondays and Thursdays for the regular meetings. Remote Desktop rocks - I VPN and Remote Desktop to my office pc and basically I still do my work on my office pc via my home pc. I don't need to transfer files, synchronize email or anything. It's pretty spiffy.

There were days where I had absolutely nothing to do and basically surfed the internet all day - trust me, it ain't all that fun. Time drags on forever when I'm not kept busy. Instead, I can work out during lunch and knock out some stuff around the house during slow work days (which I have often)...and surf the web now and again

This is pretty sweet since my contract doesn't end until next June. By then, if all goes as planned, we'll have the house fixed up by then to put it on the market by early spring and hopefully sold by June or July and we'll be able to move back to California.

Smoggy, I hate you. That is all.


Angsty, stop being such a pus[b][/b]sy and get back to work! A little nose bleed is hardly "extenuating circumstances". And while you're at it, lay off the coke. Why, when I was your age I had to walk to work in the snow with no shoes and we would have been happy with a nose bleed just to keep our faces warm! Damn kids.

My son-in-law has telecommute for a company in Texas, for a couple months now. So far he hasn't had to visit their offices in Houston. Before he went fulltime with the company, one of the woners came out here to help him get set up and work on a project. I think they come here for the crabcakes.

One week after he started the job, my daughter was having to call him, to come down for lunch and dinner. She tries to take the kids places, just so he can be left alone, without their 3 year old running riot through the house. Come the new year, they plan to put the baby in daycare and son in pre-school, so she can find a job, or go back to school.

Our company uses an 8 tape changer or some such to minimize that problem, though it is only about a 20 mile drive in any case.

Also, I love working from home. When I have constant net access I get more done there, I feel loads more guilty for not doing the work. Plus the chair and keyboard are much more comfortable. The only problem is the intermitant net occlusions and the need to SSH tunnel for everything.

The intarweb is the future.

[quote]So basically you sit around the house *********************

Well, I can't very well do it at work, now can I?