{"id":1548,"date":"2016-01-28T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:56:56","slug":"ec-tech-meetup-january-27-2016-techniques-for-finding-remote-tech-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"EC Tech Meetup January 27, 2016: Techniques for Finding Remote Tech Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the meeting was held in the Madison\/Waterloo WI area. \u00a0We shared notes, contacts and techniques for finding remote work.<\/p>\n<p>General sentiments:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Finding remote work is getting easier.<\/li>\n<li>You have to invest in some good gear for making communication easy.<\/li>\n<li>The work place in your house\/coffee shop: \u00a0experienced developers thought life\/work separation was more important (i.e. separate spaces); less experienced tended to mix them more.<\/li>\n<li>Finding a good recruiter was near impossible that you could always use, so spread it out.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We found quite curiously more of a remote culture in urban areas (Madison, St. Paul\/Minneapolis and Chicago &#8212; per our representatives at this meeting) vs. rural situations such as people\u00a0Eau Claire or Watertown; the smaller more rural sentiment is to find long commutes\/stick to the local jobs. \u00a0 This is something we all did not foresee and was puzzling, perhaps culture driven.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Living in a rural area with less opportunity meant developers tended to try less at\u00a0getting remote work?<\/li>\n<li>However, people in\u00a0metro area where there is more local opportunity the people were more likely to find remote work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good session. \u00a0Thank you to The Crystal in Madison for drinks later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the meeting was held in the Madison\/Waterloo WI area. \u00a0We shared notes, contacts and techniques for finding remote work. General sentiments: Finding remote work is getting easier. You have to invest in some good gear for making communication easy. The work place in your house\/coffee shop: \u00a0experienced developers thought life\/work separation was more important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}