This is my 8th year of working remotely. If there's one wish I could have is going back to work in physical office, but due to where I live that's not going to happen anytime soon as that require me to relocate to the capital 400KM away and double (or maybe triple) the cost of living. The primary reason I stay with remote job is my kids. This job allow me more time with my kids, at the expense of my own social interaction but I'm fine with it. Few times a year attending team meetup or conferences in the city are enough and already exhausting so it also good having time and space to wind up before the next event coming up.
I think you need very strong reason to work remotely and it can't be just, oh it look cool, I can spent all days coding at home etc. That won't keep you for long.
Wow this is a very different answer than I was expecting!
So the lack of social interaction is the largest downside in your experience?
I'm extremely introverted (as I'm sure most developers are) and I really cherish my time alone. But I also know how detrimental too much alone time can be. I'm sure after a while it definitely would get to me as it has the past.
Partly, yes. On the third year I think I started having some kind of depression due to lack of social interaction. So I started going out, established local user group and try to have regular meetup. It help a lot at that time. But the effort didn't last long, everyone busy and I don't have the energy to keep it running.
These days I just keep a group of friends from my circle in telegram group. That help me a bit to still have someone to talk about our field. The non-work social interaction is different and at least to me, not really full-filling. I mean, at the end of the day, you still need someone to debate vim vs emacs, right ;)
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This is my 8th year of working remotely. If there's one wish I could have is going back to work in physical office, but due to where I live that's not going to happen anytime soon as that require me to relocate to the capital 400KM away and double (or maybe triple) the cost of living. The primary reason I stay with remote job is my kids. This job allow me more time with my kids, at the expense of my own social interaction but I'm fine with it. Few times a year attending team meetup or conferences in the city are enough and already exhausting so it also good having time and space to wind up before the next event coming up.
I think you need very strong reason to work remotely and it can't be just, oh it look cool, I can spent all days coding at home etc. That won't keep you for long.
Wow this is a very different answer than I was expecting!
So the lack of social interaction is the largest downside in your experience?
I'm extremely introverted (as I'm sure most developers are) and I really cherish my time alone. But I also know how detrimental too much alone time can be. I'm sure after a while it definitely would get to me as it has the past.
Partly, yes. On the third year I think I started having some kind of depression due to lack of social interaction. So I started going out, established local user group and try to have regular meetup. It help a lot at that time. But the effort didn't last long, everyone busy and I don't have the energy to keep it running.
These days I just keep a group of friends from my circle in telegram group. That help me a bit to still have someone to talk about our field. The non-work social interaction is different and at least to me, not really full-filling. I mean, at the end of the day, you still need someone to debate vim vs emacs, right ;)