Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• oozynozh@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fellow IT guy here, I absolutely hate working from the office. Home life is my life and work life only matters to me insofar as it’s necessary to my home life.

  Anything taking my brain from home mode to work mode is an obstacle that should be avoided.

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am sure they do enjoy it, just as I don’t.

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• Gumus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I took up online tutoring and teaching programming for kids. It has great benefits:

  • It’s an hour or so after work, it has a fixed schedule so it forces me to clock out
  • it makes me focus hard so I completely forget about work
  • it pays for itself (not my corporate day-job rate, but I’m not doing it for free)
  • I can try out languages and tech I’d normally wouldn’t be able to in my day job, or I’d have to invest my free time gor a side project
  • I have a background in teaching… I like it, it’s fun and refreshing
  • I’ve helped many kids jump start their interest in programming even in families that know nothing about tech at all. I’ve helped a few of them to get accepted to the school they wanted to and pursue a career in programming

  All in all, teaching after work makes for a great hobby and a strong barrier for my day job so I don’t find myself working late anymore.

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, totally this.

  I occationally have to fix stuff on the weekend and even than I’ll rather go to the office than doing it from home.

  Also I have different monitor and keyboard setups and I really don’t like working on my home setup.

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• tty5@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me that’s achieved by being 6 timezones ahead - I finish work, turn off my computer and go to sleep.

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