Would you swap 5% pay for 100% work from home ?

YES!!! Heck, I would do it now even without UC. Working from home would be great!

ditto

In a heartbeat!!

OK then. Prospect is a growing company and despite seeing this position open up over and over again it is not burnout/turnover it is advancement through the ranks. Existing company has flatlined sales. Existing company does not match 401k. Prospect contributes 3% regardless of how much you sock away.

Going to crunch all the numbers list and rank the positives and negatives and do the comparative analysis.

I passed the grueling online test and the phone call today. I suspect the next call is going to start out with technical quizzing and after put some points on the board he will drop that and move towards overall fit. Better study up again though. Fast answer and less mental searching will impress.

It is unanimous here in the replies and my daughter senses I need to unload some stress and wants me to take it as well.

I think a key here is you gotta inquire about being able to separate work from home life because if blends together your home life becomes as lousy as your job life. A positive here is they allow you to rest. They have an offshore team from 10-7 overnight.

Seems like a job tailor made for a UC person. Flares are unseen, rest beats night pager hands down. OTOH need to investigate the benefits - been burned before.

For the next two years she will be loving this academy, then its back to the bus line and public high school, but heck her character will be formed by then and I replaced the entire security system from the builder so in 2 years if I need to be travelling consultant to coastal cities to crank the retirement I can do that a little bit and not worry so much ( good neighbors too - one built a security company ).....now it is time to hang around the homestead and support her. Best way to do that is to be healthy physically and mentally. This prospect might enable that and have a career path for growth, unless my current company catches on fire with sales there won't be a career path.

Just be careful - it's easy to remain in PJ's when working from home. Although this sounds utterly awesome to most - it's the initial start to lack of discipline and less productivity.

Get up, hit the can, shower, eat breakfast and get dressed (put on work or office clothes) as if you were going into the office... Just don't actually go "to" the office. Actually make sure you really do have an actual office in your home, not a desk at the end of your bed. A full room with a door dedicated to work.

Makes all the difference when working from home... and for those that tend to slack somewhat and those that want to stay in PJ's and track pants or athletic wear, walk the dog, garden, nap, exercise at will... remember this is not actually working from home, this is vacation and day off activities.

Of course if you're the boss and business owner feel free to do whatever you want :)



PS - I think it's a good idea though

Post Edited (Canada Mark) : 8/23/2013 10:01:09 PM (GMT-6)

I'd love to work at home, IBD or no IBD.

I'd have done it for a 15% cut in pay. No commuting expenses, work clothing, lunches out, etc. I'm sure would save that much. Then there'd be the fact that I would like all my co-workers...

 

Conquer UC said...
Ditto CanadaMark. It's a good opportunity especially now that you have done all the driving and working from the office so you have the discipline to work from home already. Just maintain it by doing what Mark says.

It is actually the reverse.

I started out WFH 100% with this company as a consultant. The job before was also a consultant WFH I was migrating entire hospital computer systems to new architecture, new clustered high-availability servers OVERNIGHT while the patients slept with a team of people. That was a real grind on us. Critical migrations and if there were any snags over night and we were not up on the new systems by the morning you can imagine how the hospital MGMT would be fuming/freaking out. I was working constantly and my personal best was billing 86 hours in one week. Very lucrative but pissed off my daughter.

Then my current job came along and the other guys quit so I got to WFH and migrate the companies customer data to new servers new hardware much like before. Personal best on that gig was 96 hours billed in one week. I once worked 72 hours straight and never flared. More lucrative and I increased my parenting time.

Then I converted to employee, new CEO wanted everyone downtown and my productivity TANKED. However I took full custody of my daughter and she is the happiest yet however the driving is a problem.

So for me it is the opposite, I do the work of 3 people at home, the office is an 'INTERRUPTION FACTORY' loaded with inefficiencies.

So the new prospect is for a consulting firm also and we will have many client corporate database to upgrade, monitor and conduct performance tuning on.

Not doing your job will be very visible but I can see how a sales person for example could fall behind by working from home if they were not disciplined.

Old place was cramped and the realtor let me know it. Now I have 4000 sq feet and computers/offices all over the place. Downstairs office, loft office, workout room, great room. If I flare I even have a monitor that goes over the mattress so I can lie down expend no energy but keep working, did that for 5 weeks in 2012.

I just want to hammer out projects and expending a lot of mental energy fighting through traffic, hauling my stuff up 14 floors and then unpacking it all while conversations are going on left/right all around me is just a horrible recipe for starting a productive day.

Everything has its downside so I need to go into this with eyes wide open. The good thing is with kids back in school the job season just started so if I hate it with this firm it will be easy to land somewhere else.

I read one dozen reports from the theglassdoor.com I know what to inquire about but overall it sounded good. Good people, flexible, unbeatable WFH policy and of course MGMT is clumsy and does not listen - same as everywhere else.

I work from home 100%. Can't say I miss the commuting but I do miss meeting people face to face sometimes but there are ways to solve that, I go to courses and seminars etc

We have been doing eBay full time since 2005 and we love it. Grab yourself a copy of Neil Waterhouse's eBay book "Million Dollar eBay Business From Home" and follow it to a tee.

I have to agree with John, even when I had UC I wouldn't have wanted to work at home. I loved going to work and seeing people! I'm a stay at home mom now, my husband has a great job so we are lucky that I can afford to do that. And he leaves Sunday and come back Thursday night. So for all those days there are no adults to talk to!
I started volunteering at my son's school and am much happier getting out and seeing people.
Personally I would be miserable not seeing people all day. Plus I really love money and wouldn't want to give any up :)
I do understand not wanting to drive so far and all that though, especially if you are in a flare.
Like someother people said just be careful that you don't start staying in your pj's and such. And be careful not to let work into the rest of the house!
Good luck!