But I’ll bet a lot more of them can than have been until this.
5 thoughts on “Most U.S. Jobs”
I have a job that can be done remotely, because virtually all of my work is remote anyway (managing HPC clusters for multiple customers). But my boss wants to see peoples’ faces, so I have to commute 3 days a week (100 mile round trip). So FOR ME the current crisis is a blessing, since I get to work from home every day. We’ll see if that continues once the lockdown has been ended.
What a kick in the pants to my company …
Everything was in place for work at home for most our staff (large EPC company), but upper management wouldn’t allow it. Then came Covid-19.
Now, not only are we working remotely, but I’m able to continue working from Canada after my flight back to Houston was cancelled and shelter-in-place was mandated. Glad not to have missed a paycheck yet.
I’m seeing cloudflare captcha pages on many websites today, including the one behind that link. Throw in paywalls and “no anonymous browsers” and I wonder if content providers realize just how little their content is worth. More than one click away? No.
But what happens when people finally realize that buying ads from The Evil Empire (aka Google) is a waste of money? What happens when Google can’t sell all that data they’ve collected (with their free services)? Maybe we’ll finally see some working micro-payment systems.
(Do the paywall sites still show ads? Are they like cable TV, where I gtt the privilege of paying for ad channels I’ll never watch?)
When I was an auto mechanic I worked from home just fine. Most auto mechanics are required to own their own tools, and the garage owner provides workspace, compressed air, and lifts. And takes most of the money in exchange. Kind of like trad book publishers in that regard. My main task was keeping the grarage owner from knowing that I was poaching ground-level customers. When I switched to IT, I found it similar. And, of course, I was publishing all along.
I have a job that can be done remotely, because virtually all of my work is remote anyway (managing HPC clusters for multiple customers). But my boss wants to see peoples’ faces, so I have to commute 3 days a week (100 mile round trip). So FOR ME the current crisis is a blessing, since I get to work from home every day. We’ll see if that continues once the lockdown has been ended.
What a kick in the pants to my company …
Everything was in place for work at home for most our staff (large EPC company), but upper management wouldn’t allow it. Then came Covid-19.
Now, not only are we working remotely, but I’m able to continue working from Canada after my flight back to Houston was cancelled and shelter-in-place was mandated. Glad not to have missed a paycheck yet.
I’m seeing cloudflare captcha pages on many websites today, including the one behind that link. Throw in paywalls and “no anonymous browsers” and I wonder if content providers realize just how little their content is worth. More than one click away? No.
But what happens when people finally realize that buying ads from The Evil Empire (aka Google) is a waste of money? What happens when Google can’t sell all that data they’ve collected (with their free services)? Maybe we’ll finally see some working micro-payment systems.
(Do the paywall sites still show ads? Are they like cable TV, where I gtt the privilege of paying for ad channels I’ll never watch?)
When I was an auto mechanic I worked from home just fine. Most auto mechanics are required to own their own tools, and the garage owner provides workspace, compressed air, and lifts. And takes most of the money in exchange. Kind of like trad book publishers in that regard. My main task was keeping the grarage owner from knowing that I was poaching ground-level customers. When I switched to IT, I found it similar. And, of course, I was publishing all along.