Across from my apartment in Thailand was a very cool motorcycle repair shop, but there weren’t many cafes.įor instance, in Bangkok it was pretty hard to just walk into a random cafe and connect to their free wifi there were remarkably few cafes in my area at all! Starbucks is a safe choice for a quick coffee and wifi in North America, but the Starbucks in Bangkok had pay-per-minute wifi. Get confident that you have a sense of where you are on a map, a bit about how transit there works, and what the social norms are around remote working where you are.
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Once you have mobile data you can still do things like reply to email, chat with coworkers, and even attend Skype meetings, but don’t try to get down and code like crazy your first day in a new place. Take a break and allow yourself to be wowed by your new environment before smashing your head against that redesign you’ve been struggling with the past week. It’s going to be like Innotech if there were 100 Lumberghs. Working outside an office can mean less distractions - but if you plop yourself down in a foreign place with zero knowledge of it, you’re going to feel bombarded by absolutely everything around you. That brings me to my first point: Catch Your BreathĮven if you’re only going from Los Angeles to London: give yourself a day or two to get re-adjusted and confident in your surroundings. Although going from an American to Western European city might not feel too different, heading from Canada to Thailand was crazy taxing. Although not jet-lagged, I was mentally exhausted for the next few days taking in the sites adjusting to the language, heat, and commotion and just generally feeling quite out-of-place. I was very fortunately greeted by a friend who helped me get into town, but I was pretty exhausted after that journey. At the time I was living in Halifax, Canada, and it took three planes and over thirty-five hours in transit to get to Bangkok’s humongous airport.
Last January, I started what would unknowingly be a streak of adventures by packing up everything I owned into a tiny car and parking it in a friend’s driveway, then hopping onto a plane to Bangkok, Thailand.
I’ve since made Montreal, Canada my home, but in-between I went to some of my favourite cities and to places I had never been before.Īll while still committing code to Mozilla’s webdev projects. Well, I spent the past five months without a permanent residence of my own, travelling around the globe while still working. Yes, there’s IRC and email and Skype and GitHub and everything in-between, but what about all the non-technical aspects of remote work? What about when you’re ready to take working remotely to the next level: travelling to a foreign place while still being productive. I largely agree with their viewpoint and admit they’re one of the reasons I became so interested in working remotely.īut what about the hows of working remotely? If you’ve ever read anything from 37signals, you’ve likely heard all about the virtues of working remotely: why it leads to better productivity how it results in less disruption that you’re an utter fool if your team isn’t distributed across nine continents. “Working from home” no longer feels like an adequate description for those of us who also work from airports, cafes, co-working joints, friend’s houses, and even parks. I work remotely, which I think describes what was once known as “telecommuting” much better than “working from home”. Tales of the Travelling Programmer, Part One