Re: Semi-OT: telecommuting & web development

WARNING, there is one problem with telecommuting or rather:
The ability to work anywhere, anytime leads to working everywhere, all the time.

When one of my project managers started to label me as 'resource available' 
every
single day of the week I realized that the great impression I made on the 
earlier
deliverable (working holidays etc to get it done) was now taken granted.  I was 
a 24/7
resource.

I have telecommuted off an on since 1989.  It is great, good employers know 
they have
to allow for it in order to get great employees.   Twice I have been offered 
good
jobs, when confronted with 8-4:30 M-F I simply told them to hire someone less
qualified.

I will say however, some don't want to telecommute.  They leave at 4:00 and 
they leave
part of their brain on their desk.  They don't even think about work until they
return.  There are advantages to living outside your job.  I can't do it, but I 
see
the advantages.

For me it is more of where I can escape to.  Kids are home during the summer 
now.  My
house is like the ending of the Mel Brooks movie 'Blazing Saddles' with giant 
fight
scenes crashing through other sets on the movie lot.  I try to go to one of my 
other
offices before those start.

When you get busy when hide out where it is quiet and you can get work done.  
When you
slow done and fear you might go hungry, you pop into radar range again until 
your
mouth is full.

--Dan Atkins

My tip for the day:  When creating flag variables consider atarting at 1 and 
doubling
at each increment.
For instance, lets say I wanted to report on which of my three kids went to the 
pool.
Instead of creating three columns of data I will create one.  Oldest gets a 1, 
Middle
Child a 2, and Youngest a 4.
If the two oldest go, that is 1+2 =3,
If the two youngest go 2+4 =6.
A 5 would tell me that 1 and 4 went,
7 means 1, 2, & 4 went.
If I had a fourth child they would get a 8, the 5th a 16, and the 7th a 32.  
Gets more
confusing but you save more space.  I would not do it to keep track of 25 
students in
a classroom, but it has it's places.


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