The Pursuit of Happiness » remote working http://www.tomcupr.com Live smart, work smart, think different, be happy! Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:04:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Hurray! http://www.tomcupr.com/2008/10/hurray/ http://www.tomcupr.com/2008/10/hurray/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:59:27 +0000 Tom http://www.tomcupr.com/?p=12 I just finished really important project that was chaining me to the desk in last few weeks and my new e-commerce website (will talk about that later) is gaining some speed too. It all seems to be going in the right direction (work-wise that is). Since all I need to sufficiently manage these things is a computer and broadband I will probably treat myself for a nice “working” trip somewhere warmer than Sheffield – one of my childhood friends just moved to Salamanca, Spain so that’s certainly an option, closely followed by someplace in Italy :-)

]]> http://www.tomcupr.com/2008/10/hurray/feed/ 0 My first trully remote working arragement http://www.tomcupr.com/2008/09/my-first-trully-remote-working-arragement/ http://www.tomcupr.com/2008/09/my-first-trully-remote-working-arragement/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:49:55 +0000 Tom http://www.tomcupr.com/?p=7 Last week I decided to try to “free” myself and work remotely while also enjoying sunshine, meeting old friends and generally doing things I like.

I went to Czech Republic and after installing wi-fi in my apartment I was good to go! I tell you that nothing beats making money in the sunshine drinking beverage of choice while it’s raining cats and dogs back home – not to mention that I managed to get a lot more done, and i mean a lot more! The distraction level was really low and really felt motivation kick – not to mention that pound/dollar goes there much further than in UK/US respectively.

I will update this post soon with some ground rules of remote working and how to convince your boss (if you have one) that granting you permission to go away is just the best decision he/she can make.

I also applied a lot of 80/20 theory (Pareto’s principle) in last few months and it’s all comming to fruition now – stay tuned!

Tom

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