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How did you start your remote career? What motivated you?
Let's discuss our experiences. Maybe our stories will be helpful for people looking to break into remote work.
My remote journey started about six years ago. I wanted to work as a developer without moving to a big city or moving abroad. I searched online job boards with remote positions but back then they weren't as plentiful as they are now. I was lucky with angel.co because I found a startup that had a remote team in my country and that's how I got started.
For me what worked was being remote locally in the beginning and then with more experience I could expand internationally.
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Before the Corona crisis, I was working as a software engineer in a local company, and with the current circumstances, the company stopped working.
I became unemployed and it was difficult at that time to get a new job in my country, so I went to search for an opportunity through the Internet.
As for today, I am a digital product maker and I am not looking forward to returning to the job after today
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As for most the remote workers out there, my journey started with Covid. I went to some of the remotest places in South east asia and have worked there and had the best of career and personal life. Once the covid went away, I tried going to office 3 days a week while living in the city and absolutely hated it so took the decision to go remote with my own startup :)
My experience, like many others, started with Covid. Believe it or not, being a religious runner actually helped me discipline and motivate myself while being separated from the rest of the world. I'd designed this mind map for myself where I would check stuff off a list in my head. I would then pat myself in the back and would set some very small goals for the coming days.