Work remote (if you aren’t already). I’ve been doing it at various companies for the better part of a decade and rarely work a full 5 days per week. There are probably 4-6 days/month there just isn’t much on my plate that day so I take care of errands or spend time with my family, or just do nothing.
I also work just as hard as I did when I commuted and have never been reprimanded for not getting enough done, quite they opposite in fact.
Personally, on my team at work, I encourage this behavior. I see no reason to keep my employees at their desk when there's nothing immediate to do. I tell them to please go for a walk or take a nap if there's something they're waiting on. You'd have to be truly evil to want your guys to sit there staring at a screen.
Be good at engineering or product management or normal engineering management or marketing or ... anything and get hired by one of the 1000s of companies with remote jobs at the moment.
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Work remote (if you aren’t already). I’ve been doing it at various companies for the better part of a decade and rarely work a full 5 days per week. There are probably 4-6 days/month there just isn’t much on my plate that day so I take care of errands or spend time with my family, or just do nothing.
I also work just as hard as I did when I commuted and have never been reprimanded for not getting enough done, quite they opposite in fact.
Personally, on my team at work, I encourage this behavior. I see no reason to keep my employees at their desk when there's nothing immediate to do. I tell them to please go for a walk or take a nap if there's something they're waiting on. You'd have to be truly evil to want your guys to sit there staring at a screen.
What advice would you have in regards to getting a fully remote job?
Get an office job and tell everyone you have a contagious disease you could spread to them I guess.
Be good at engineering or product management or normal engineering management or marketing or ... anything and get hired by one of the 1000s of companies with remote jobs at the moment.
E.g. Amazon has 500 open remote jobs in the US on their site https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=&loc_query=Remo...
apply to every remote only job you see and only to remote only jobs
if you're a competent engineer it's just a standard job search