Getting a remote job, doing something completely different, with a company you love.
It’s impossible to predict how my stories are going to do. I’ll spend hours working on something that I think is going to absolutely kill it, and it falls flat. Another that I spend 30 minutes cranking out while waiting for the washing machine to buzz will take off like a rocket.
The past few months have been interesting as far as work is concerned.
I’ve been called back to the office, and my wife jumped careers from healthcare into tech support, or customer happiness as they like to call it.
I wrote a longer piece about her journey, detailing how I think it’s possible for anyone that is a good communicator to get a job with a great company. She was miserable working in healthcare, and it was killing her. I gently prompted her into taking a skills inventory, looking around on remote work websites, reaching out to her network, and looking for professional opportunities that aligned with her hobbies and other interests. We polished up her resume, tailored it a bit, and she sent out a few introductory emails to companies she’d like to work for. In the end she landed 100% remote job with a fantastic company in Austin.
How To Get a Remote Job With the Best Tech Companies in the World
Since so many people are looking for different jobs, and remote work is hot as hell, I thought this would crush it.
I was wrong.
I’ve been directed to get back to the office.
If there’s one thing that I absolutely love, it’s being told what to do.<sarcasm />
One of the “leaders” in my shop sent an email to everyone saying enough is enough, the “pandemic” is over, time to get back to work.
I freaked out a bit, but applied the Rule of 5’s—when pissed, wait 5 mins, 5 hours, 5 days, etc. before responding.
Fortunately a coworker responded with a “No”.
Thank God for strong women that don’t take any shit off people.
I like working wherever I might happen to be at the moment, and my customers and coworkers have no idea anyway. I could be sitting in a cube in a tightly sealed recirculated air building, or in my office at home with the windows open.
I was pissed and amazed and like Kermit destroying his typewriter, I cranked this one out in less than an hour:
The Real Problem With Going Back to the Office
It triggered quite a bit of engagement.
The consensus seems to be that people are OK with two days I week.
I content that it’s easier to slip a collar back on slowly as opposed to forcing it back on. I’m holding out.
Either way,
Time flies.
It’s the last day of April 2022.
I hate newsletters and so do you.
That’s why I don’t do a newsletter, I just send an email now and then to my friends.
Let me know if there is anything you need me to help you with.
Reach out any time, I read all emails.
Travis