My ETS date was June 2002, I was a 19k (tank crewman). My first day as a civilian I swore into the Air Force reserve. Word was they were stop holding tankers and calling them back in. No effing way I was going to war with the low lifes and criminals I served with in tank platoons in the late 90s. I understand recruiting did a lot better after 9/11, more motivated people. All I knew was if the Air Force has me the Army couldn’t get me. Peace brother.
Wow, that would be a great answer for the YC application's "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?" question.
I'm able to do this, having a separate office area works well. Although interruptions aren't really a problem since my family is away during the day. Neither of my current remote jobs are particularly demanding; start late, two or three hour lunch and I shut down at 5. That's it for me.
I stopped working several years ago. I still go to the office and collect a check. In reality I do about 4 hours of real work a week. Have been for years. Software development is the ultimate bullsh-t job.
Target used to hire some remote developers. Last time I checked their careers page, looked like they no longer do. Or if they do it's not advertised as an option.
Working mulitiple remote jobs. I've never been 100% utilized, haven't been in 10 years. So I took on another job. I work more than one job remote in an 8 hour day. Two times the income, and I'm generally more busy, but still not 100%. Sure there are busy time but they rarely coincide.
That’s a can of worms. Basically employees are traditionally measured by the amount of time they are confined multipled by a factor representing their relative worth. Such an arrangement encourages slacking off of course, so the typical 40h wotker might do 20h of real work but if they went home early every day eyebrows will be raised so they need to be present the whole day. But what happens when working remote? There are no appearances to keep up and so it’s probably cool to do 20h as long as you are typically getting through enough work. And if you can take on 2 of those, why not? why should amazon have so many customers rather than just serve me? Well amazon don’t lie about it whereas in the work situation you might need to, and therein lies the rub.
This sounds pointed. As long as they're adhering to the terms of the employment agreement and producing good work, I don't see why the employer would care.
That was the first question that came to my mind as well, since I think all of my working contracts have stipulated that I was expected to work exclusively for the company I signed with. See, many went as far as pretending i could not even work for another IT company even after the contract ended, as you certainty all have experienced as well.
Unless OP is freelancing of course, but he did not sound like he is.
They were acquired by Stellar's commercial division, Lightyear and merged to form a new entity/brand called Interstellar. It's now an enterprise consulting company with the aim of getting Stellar used in production and deployed more widely.
The conclusion that there are many former mainframe developers who no longer work as mainframe developers in the US might be anecdotal but fits what I've seen in the Chicago market as well.
Can you deliver pizza's at night? Why can't you do another dev job? Sure there's risk, but the calculus is: $100k a year or $200k a year? Retire in 30 years or 10? I've had lot's of jobs that didn't even make me sign a non compete.
