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I'm experimenting with telecommuting which for years worried me because I was terribly bad it during my graduate school days in the late 1990s. I'm nearly 20 years older than that now, so I guess I can probably do it.
One thing I've noticed, though, I've become one of those people whose dogs can sometimes be heard while on professional conference calls. I don't think this is preventable, at least while I live in a very tiny one bedroom apartment in NYC.
I also note that this now makes me have something significant in common with Larry Rosen, as I remember hearing his dogs on conference calls going back to the early 2000s, and as recently as two years ago.
Jeff Gehlbach, sazius old account, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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I've done worked remotely for most of my working life in some shape or form, and the shapes and forms have changed a lot in 20 years. I had no problem with it myself, but problems did occur when I had to work with others who didn't take to interacting remotely. My experience is that most folk can adapt but, alas, not quite everyone.
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Funny, adopting dogs was my proximate trigger for switching from telecommuting to cow-orking. The conference call thing put me over the edge.
Jeff Gehlbach at 2013-09-20T10:57:35Z
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But now you won't sound like a golf announcer, speaking in a low voice so your coworking space mates can't hear something sensitive ;-)
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So far my company has been good with that.
Some things to watch out:
- Remember to go out and exercise or at least go to the library to change your surroundings and not get bored.
- Try not to eat where you work.
- I cannot say much about the dog though. I have cats at home :)