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Subject:Re: Telecommuting Job Search From:Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:30:36 -0700
I did once take a contract job where I spent the first week at an off-site
"think tank" with a bunch of managers. Then when I reported to the office
the following week, it turned out they hadn't prepared any space for me.
Apparently they expected me to work fro home and had just failed to mention
it. I was in heaven! The distance wasn't really very far (20 miles?) so
traffic and travel time wasn't an issue, but that's what they wanted. And
again, that was with15-18 years of experience behind me. I was documenting
changing office procedures and employee handbook type stuff, not new
software, so it was easy to do interviews on site or on the phone to
collect what I needed then go home and just write.
But that had never happened before, and seldom since, dammit. I loved that
gig.
Maggie
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techwr-l-bounces+maggie_secara=capgroup -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
10/09/2006 07:01:37 PM:
> I wouldn't say that getting a telecommuting job when you are new to the
> field
> is impossible, but it's pretty darn close. Most telecommuters are
> either people
> who have worked in-office for their employers for some period and
> established
> themselves with the company or independent contractors, who will have
> established themselves to an even greater extent within the field by
> running
> their own businesses.
>
> The place to begin for a newcomer would most likely be to secure a
> position
> in-office for a company that has a policy of allowing telecommuting,
> then
> work to meet whatever criteria the company has for allowing its
> employees
> to do it. Expect to work in-office until you do.
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