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Time to Switch Off? « Ramblings of a Remote Worker — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:32:38 +0000

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By: Cortez

Cortez — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:58:33 +0000

I closed my office and started coffee shop working, maybe caffeine helps (I already was addictted to it, anyway).

I can’t thinking of resuming the nine-to-five scheme, it scares me!!!

By: philippa

philippa — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:48:29 +0000

@Ryan:

Coffee shop working is something I haven’t fully tried yet (aside from once when I had a power cut at home and needed to finish a job) – I’ll keep you posted!

Thanks for sharing your experience about working whilst on holiday; I expect that I will eventually find the same as you – i.e. that it is much healthier to leave all work at home whilst on holiday…in any case I may also have something of a rebellion on my hands if I continue to do it!

By: Ryan Ginstrom

Ryan Ginstrom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:22:51 +0000

I used to do a lot of remote working, using the combination of my laptop and mobile phone. I’ve worked from mountain campsites and tropical beaches. For the first couple of years, I thought it was great because it allowed me to take more vacations. After a while though, it started to get old, and a family rebellion convinced me to make great efforts to leave all work at home when vacationing. Even though I was spending only 10% or so of my time working, I found that not having any work at all makes for a much more pleasant vacation.

I’m also not much into the coffee shop work style, because my office is so much more nicer — although I have several translator friends who swear by it (they say it makes them more productive, but I think it’s just the overdose of caffeine).