Archived I work from home at a real job I found on Craigslist. AMA! (IAMA)
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Archived I work from home at a real job I found on Craigslist. AMA! (IAMA)
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[–] ack 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
What did you major in/study?
What are your "hours" like? Or do you not keep regular hours?
Were you specifically looking for a job then? How did you stumble upon it? Do you look for jobs on CL usually?
Do you go to the office at all (ie to troubleshoot hardware stuff, for meetings, etc)?
Does your company hire a lot of other people to do the same thing (ie customer tech support from home)? Is this because of space limitations at the office or something? Do they give you an allowance for hardware, transport, etc?
Do you have a side job?
[–] Mister_Sparkle [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
They are hiring like crazy right now doing white-label tech support for a national client, but it's mostly talking customers through installing routers. There are a lot of upsides to telecommuting for a company: No need to maintain a building, full coverage across multiple time zones, no single point of failure for a building's network, happier employees, little to no office politics or drama, &c. There are downsides, though, the biggest of which is not everyone is cut out to do this. "Work avoidance" is a big hot-button issue here. 50¢ an hour of my pay is for equipment, and they gave me a free USB headset.
Nothing that pays. I fancy myself a DJ, but have never made more than gas money, and stick to alternative scenes. Steve Aoki has nothing to fear from me.