Working from home-Hows that going?

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donbosco said:
Working From Home sure has made my dogs happy.
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Would that be dogs like woof woof or dogs like toes and heels?

My sis says one of the best things about wfh is not having to dress up and wear uncomfortable shoes all day.
 


Good counter to employees complaining about $20 lunches. I travel a good bit to call on companies and love it when we hit an office with a subsidized cafeteria (even though on expenses). Usually good food at reasonable price and you can navigate and make it as healthy (or unhealthy) as you'd like.
 
I have a neice that works at LinkedIn in the large Chicago Office You can eat three meals a day there-I think it is free? A nice Day Care . Of course in return they pretty much expect you to live there . When she produces children she gets many months off..........
 
Bump.

So, anyone know of any job opportunities starting in January for say a teacher who is burned out but does well with tech, problem solving, etc.

Asking for a friend.
 
Rock said:
Bump.

So, anyone know of any job opportunities starting in January for say a teacher who is burned out but does well with tech, problem solving, etc.

Asking for a friend.
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This is my wife’s exact situation.

She’s been looking into training, change management, learning development, instructional design type stuff.
 
HeelInTheOzarks said:
This is my wife’s exact situation.

She’s been looking into training, change management, learning development, instructional design type stuff.
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Yeah, I definitely have to consider getting some type of certification or training or whatever if I want to go this route.

Since half of this forum are lawyers, has anyone heard of a company called Relativity in the area of eDiscovery? Apparently, I could make six figures working remote if I did grunt work doing discovery for companies that need keyword searches and what not over thousands of emails and all that.

My friend who owns the company said it's a tough job and they can't find enough people because law firms don't sleep and are demanding. So, that would not be a fun part of it ha.

Anyway, I'm just talking out loud.
 
Rock said:
Yeah, I definitely have to consider getting some type of certification or training or whatever if I want to go this route.

Since half of this forum are lawyers, has anyone heard of a company called Relativity in the area of eDiscovery? Apparently, I could make six figures working remote if I did grunt work doing discovery for companies that need keyword searches and what not over thousands of emails and all that.

My friend who owns the company said it's a tough job and they can't find enough people because law firms don't sleep and are demanding. So, that would not be a fun part of it ha.

Anyway, I'm just talking out loud.
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e-discovery sucks donkey balls, but to be fair, it may not be much worse than 2024-era public school teaching, and it probably does pay 3-4x more. It's soul-sucking work, though, so I'd encourage you to watch Severance before you start down that path.
 
lawtig02 said:
e-discovery sucks donkey balls, but to be fair, it may not be much worse than 2024-era public school teaching, and it probably does pay 3-4x more. It's soul-sucking work, though, so I'd encourage you to watch Severance before you start down that path.
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Soul sucking work is all you needed to say. I'm not expecting whatever remote job I can possibly find to be all roses and daisies but I'm not going to voluntarily start something where I just want to die.

Thanks!
 
lawtig02 said:
e-discovery sucks donkey balls, but to be fair, it may not be much worse than 2024-era public school teaching, and it probably does pay 3-4x more. It's soul-sucking work, though, so I'd encourage you to watch Severance before you start down that path.
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For lawyers, I would agree that e-discovery on platforms like Relativity can be soul-sucking work. On the other hand, 15 years or so ago when the Legislature essentially ground my entire docket to a halt, helping out a buddy with e-discovery on document review of a large antitrust case provided a stream of income even if it became monotonous.
 
Rock said:
Bump.

So, anyone know of any job opportunities starting in January for say a teacher who is burned out but does well with tech, problem solving, etc.

Asking for a friend.
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If your friend was asking 2 years ago, he'd be in a lot better shape. Tons of tech layoffs last year or two and those folks will be in line in front of your friend. Not impossible but slow. Make sure to find a spot before you make the Hop.

You might consider getting out of tech or maybe going to a different industry in a tech role especially if your gig at school was tech support. Other industries are doing much better.
 
Context: I am a relatively introverted engineer. I support my company's manufacturing processes in other countries; our division does not manufacture in the US.

I 100% worked from home for about 1.5 years during covid. During that time, I realized how much I needed to be around people, which was surprising given my introversion. My theory is that most everyone needs to be around others, but as an introvert, I don't seek out people; I need to be put with them. Also, it is almost cliche to say how valuable those water cooler / hall talks are, but damn, I REALLY saw that post-covid when I got back in the office. So for me, 100%WFH is not ideal. One day a week WFH is my current M.O., mostly for the sake of my dogs. It works well.

Another factor is that I am easily distracted when I WFH. It is best to have a full calendar on those days.
 
A very timely thread for me. I work for a large multinational company in the tech consulting space. Our parent company has decided it's time for everybody to get back to the office a minimum of 3 to 4 days a week, if not full time.

I've been WFH since 2 years prior to covid (2018-ish). I manage a global team, but not a single member of my team is based out of my home office. I've shifted a lot of things since I took over this team, but now my team has gone from spread all over to mostly based out of either Toronto or India. My team is resisting the WFH order, and I probably will not set the good example of complying myself.

For me it takes at least an hour each direction to get to the office, there is not a single member of my team there, and about 75% of my calls happen between 8am and 11am (because my company has 10,000 employees in India). Currently my teams are supposed to be in the office 2 to 3 days a week, but there is no monitoring or enforcement. In reality they mostly come in once per week. I've been letting it slide.

But starting Jan 1, there will be a huge push to have everybody back... and I/ my team will get called out if my team is noticeably absent. Particularly in India, where there's a strong sense that everybody should be forced to follow the rules if anybody is forced to.

I'm not really sure how i feel about forcing people back. I do think something is being lost in this WFH culture. There is definitely not the level of closeness/ bonding among the young workers that I had when I was coming up the ranks. I have so many life long friends who i met through work... that does not seem to happen now.

But more importantly, I think the younger workers are losing out on mentoring. I can't begin to say how much of my growth came from just dropping by other people's offices/ desks on the fly to ask questions... or even just grumble about a perceived unfairness (which often times there were good reasons for I just wasn't seeing on my own). From my perspective, there is a lot of learning not happening now on how to navigate corporate politics with people never in the office together. And not knowing this stuff is a career killer in any big company.
 
As an aside, I think people should be VERY careful about working from home full time. Over the next 2 to 3 years companies will figure out how to have AI do a a lot of our jobs for us. If you are not having some sort of visible impact in the office, it's likely you will be among the first casualties of losing your job to AI. Obviously it depends on what you do, but if it does not require a human to do it in person, there's a good chance AI will figure out how to do it for you.

I was chatting with some of our AI specialists last week, and they think somewhere around 40% of our current workforce won't survive the AI shift.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
I've been full-time WFH since the pandemic began and would quit my job if forced to go back to the office. I don't miss the commute or office BS at all.
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I hear you I do worry about my 41 yr old son have almost zero real interactions with his bosses...I mean they barely know him
 
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