Re: Great article on Telecommuting

2007-03-22 Thread RobG
Jeffry Houser wrote: > I feel lucky. I love coding and want to do it till I die! And > since I am almost always hired as a contractor, working from home is > rarely an issue. Likewise. I have zero interest in project management because there's too much politicking and stuff to deal with.

Re: Great article on Telecommuting

2007-03-22 Thread Jeffry Houser
I feel lucky. I love coding and want to do it till I die! And since I am almost always hired as a contractor, working from home is rarely an issue. My problem is that you can't run a business based solely on coding. I spend at least half of my time on project management, client relation

Re: Great article on Telecommuting

2007-03-22 Thread Aaron Rouse
The government does allow telecommuting to some extent though for their employees but maybe it is less likely to happen for contract programmers. I know the GAO did a report(GAO-05-1055R) that gave a rough overview of teleworking methodologies for several agencies in the Federal government. I too

Re: Great article on Telecommuting

2007-03-22 Thread Don Smith
You bring up a key point. I refused to spend the rest of my life pushing code around and moved into project management. I could not have done so from my house. I love ColdFusion and think it's a great tool, but I did not want to retire as a programmer. If you're happy developing code then by