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I could never work at home full time, I feel like between the isolation, same environment all day/night, limited interpersonal communication, etc, I would go stir crazy.

I can do some work from home, basically the more mundane and monotonous stuff like approving prescriptions/reviewing patient profiles. But I’d rather separate my work life and home life. Once a while is nice, but it’s not something I’d want to every day of my life.

I’m with you; I can do some work from home but prefer to have some separattion between the two. Also, we use Citrix for remote connections and it’s either a poor product (my suspicion) or our company isn’t configuring / maintaining it properly because it’s inefficient and burdensome. So, working full time from home would cut into efficiency; plus working from home makes collaboration with colleagues difficult...conference calls, video conferencing, screen sharing, and instant messaging only goes so far.
 
I have this freedom now.

Meeting with SAP reps today to go over our needs for next year. Should be super fun...

I’m with you; I can do some work from home but prefer to have some separattion between the two. Also, we use Citrix for remote connections and it’s either a poor product (my suspicion) or our company isn’t configuring / maintaining it properly because it’s inefficient and burdensome. So, working full time from home would cut into efficiency; plus working from home makes collaboration with colleagues difficult...conference calls, video conferencing, screen sharing, and instant messaging only goes so far.
Ah, Citrix. I remember when they were a small company. I'm quite fond of Citrix. And by that I mean they throw or rather threw money around for advertising on customer niche sites. I was very happy with the generous amount of money they were putting into my wallet.
 
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So I can blame you for sone of this? :)
It's a pretty easy decision when a company offers six figures for a month's worth of advertising.


Edit: If it makes you feel better, one of the partners/vendors we picked out is a well known software company that leaves a lot to be desired. I think things in B2B are getting easier these days compared to a few years or just over a decade ago.
 
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It's a pretty easy decision when a company offers six figures for a month's worth of advertising.


Edit: If it makes you feel better, one of the partners/vendors we picked out is a well known software company that leaves a lot to be desired. I think things in B2B are getting easier these days compared to a few years or just over a decade ago.

Ahh got it. Advertising. So you were not responsible for the product.
 
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Ahh got it. Advertising. So you were not responsible for the product.
No. I've only worked for someone else twice in my life. And not advertising. I owned a large site with someone else that catered to various niches that would draw customers to Citrix. I've divested from a lot of web ownership over the last 18 years. It was a hobby of mine.


You have a lot of fun once you leave morality at the door.
 
I grew up and began my working career (apprenticeship) in a town where you might say everyone worked from home.
At least everyone walked to work from home, just a short walk across the bridge.
We even went home for a hot lunch, during the lunch break.

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Just curious as to what career/job/salary you have know vs. what you would rather be doing or making.
(Some people may love what they are doing now)
Also feel free to list the pros/cons of the career/job as well.
Sailing around the world with several Brazilian dancers. Making just enough youtube money about the places we visit and sites we explore to pay for the beer.
 
As several others have experienced, the definition of “dream job” for has varied over time.
My first dream job was being a professional ski patrolman. First at a smaller ski area, then at a major ski resort. It was seasonal, didn’t pay all that well, was mentally and physically demanding and at times downright scary, but I loved it. I won’t bore you with the details, but the job (particularly at the large resort) entailed developing skills and knowledge I hadn’t even been aware of, including snow science and explosives handling.

My second dream job was guiding inner-city kids on 5 and 10-day trips into Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. “Hoods in the Woods” if you will. We first ran them through a teams course, then out into the mountains on hikes that would give many of the locals pause. Most of these kids came from Chicago, and a significant portion of them were in gangs, or being pressured to join gangs. Again, seasonal, didn’t pay all that well, and had its shares of physical, mental, and emotional demands. And I loved it.

I was also fortunate enough to get into the city planning field, after going back for a masters degree with that goal in mind. Ten years in two towns going through rapid growth, with escalating property values, helped me appreciate the whole process of development, and the critical roles of local government, business owners, contractors, design professionals, and citizens in shaping how communities grow and change. I felt lucky to be able to participate at that level, being responsible for managing short and long range planning, design review, building code administration and code enforcement. I finally left after I no longer felt effective in the role, and became increasingly dismayed at the increasing tendency (correlated with money, it seems) commission of the rules only applying to business and government alike only when convenient (as is the case with probably every field, I expect). So that dream job, for me, ran its course.

In my current position, at the other end of the country, I am once again discovering my dream job. The one I have. I make a decent salary, but more important are the facts that I have the freedom to pursue things that interest me, I enjoy my coworkers, I enjoy working with the people outside of the company that we have a relationship with, I have a great boss, and find the work challenging but not overwhelming. At the point where many people would have retired, I am pretty excited about what I do on a daily basis. Not all day, every day. But mostly.
 
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I've always wanted to do something like that too. Even some of the best restaurants go through significant red periods. Just a really cutthroat sector, to be frank with you. I recall Buffet stating he'd never want to run one even with his money. The work is hard, it's not the most rewarding job or investment, and it's always a cause for losing money.

Do you remember the wine bars floating around California? LOL
 
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I've always wanted to do something like that too. Even some of the best restaurants go through significant red periods. Just a really cutthroat sector, to be frank with you. I recall Buffet stating he'd never want to run one even with his money. The work is hard, it's not the most rewarding job or investment, and it's always a cause for losing money.

Do you remember the wine bars floating around California? LOL

The margins are so tight that seemingly successful restaurants disappear. Lots of bad loans there too.
 
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The margins are so tight that seemingly successful restaurants disappear. Lots of bad loans there too.
I'd run out of fingers and toes counting up all the busy and amazing places that have closed down in the last 20 years alone. With the introduction of blogging and services like Yelp, it hasn't made it any easier or harder.
 
I have been lucky enough to have most of my dream jobs. After I graduated high school I enlisted in the Army where I was in infantry and later IT. After that I worked as a city cop while working on my Master of Psychology and Doctor of Physiology degrees and eventually went on to practice as a clinical psychologist and a forensic psychologist. I am now a special agent with a federal law enforcement agency and a Signal Corps officer in an Army Reserve Component
 
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As a kid I dreamed of world travel, the poster child for National Geographic, and it came true. After a 21 year career in Special Operations I landed another career in Africa with the United Nations, refer back to the 'poster child'. There were certainly bad moments but the good far out weighed the bad and it gravitated into a very lucrative security business.
Nice avatar. Which group were you with?
 
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Interesting. Challenging. Fascinating. Frustrating. Very wasteful of personal and financial resources.

Hardly fun; but an amazing expense.
That's true but the challenges would be fun to me. I agree it would be an amazing experience and probably frustrating and wasteful of financial resources.
 
Canadian supreme court justice
Practically Lifetime appointment (I believe they make you retire after 80)
Government mandated salary just under 200K with benefits & pension.
To add insult to injury you’re only legally required to show up three days out of the year
 
Professionally, I long for an office of my own (and - oddly - for much if not most of my professional life to date - this is what I have enjoyed).

As for social interaction - above all, professional social interaction, I am happy to meet with people over coffee (my daily fix in a professional setting), or in mess halls or when hosting proper dinners.

In the states at least there are numerous workspaces where you can rent an office (which includes wifi, food, water, etc, it varies by location) for $300-$1000/month. Maybe you could find something like that nearby?
 
Ah, yes, a sort of dream of mine, too, up there with buying an ancient and venerable French (or Italian) vineyard.

There is no surer way to penury.

For some reason that caused me to remember a joke an architect friend of mine once told me about what people would do if they were given a large sum of money.
There were three recipients, the first two of which said something about world travel, large houses, etc.

The third individual said “I’d study to be an architect. Then I’d practice until it was all gone.”
 
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