Hey Paul, enjoyed this one and identified with a lot here as a 20+ year remote worker who was laid off for refusing to return to office, and now trying to navigate an uncertain but exciting reimagining of work as a self/underemployed remote worker. It has pros and cons to be sure, and I don’t think it’s for everyone.
Hey Paul, enjoyed this one and identified with a lot here as a 20+ year remote worker who was laid off for refusing to return to office, and now trying to navigate an uncertain but exciting reimagining of work as a self/underemployed remote worker. It has pros and cons to be sure, and I don’t think it’s for everyone.
It does feel like something fundamentally changed during the pandemic. Millions of people got a taste of remote work and many of them realized how much quality of life they were giving up by going to an office.
If we intersect that with the growing creator and gig economies, we now have a ton of people remote working, but not in the traditional sense, they are also exploring completely new kinds of jobs, and I think that’s where this weird feeling of being in uncharted territory comes in. I feel it in my own life and I’m also both puzzled and fascinated when I meet people who are working remotely but have oddly ill-defined “jobs”. When you ask what they do it’s no longer a simple answer, I get a lot of hesitation and giggles as they try to explain what they’re actually up to.
We’re living in fascinating times for workers, it feels like the start of a new amoebic era for work that hasn’t quite figured itself out yet.
Hey Paul, enjoyed this one and identified with a lot here as a 20+ year remote worker who was laid off for refusing to return to office, and now trying to navigate an uncertain but exciting reimagining of work as a self/underemployed remote worker. It has pros and cons to be sure, and I don’t think it’s for everyone.
It does feel like something fundamentally changed during the pandemic. Millions of people got a taste of remote work and many of them realized how much quality of life they were giving up by going to an office.
If we intersect that with the growing creator and gig economies, we now have a ton of people remote working, but not in the traditional sense, they are also exploring completely new kinds of jobs, and I think that’s where this weird feeling of being in uncharted territory comes in. I feel it in my own life and I’m also both puzzled and fascinated when I meet people who are working remotely but have oddly ill-defined “jobs”. When you ask what they do it’s no longer a simple answer, I get a lot of hesitation and giggles as they try to explain what they’re actually up to.
We’re living in fascinating times for workers, it feels like the start of a new amoebic era for work that hasn’t quite figured itself out yet.