Convincing your boss to allow you to telecommute
For those who have a desk job, the compulsion of being in a cubicle 9-5 often seems like an unproductive annoyance. You often wonder how you could be more productive working a few hours in the morning from home, and then having the rest of the day to do what you like.
If you can work from home, you can also do the same from Thailand or the Caribbean, but for now, home would be a great start!
Further to the 4-Hour Work Week analogy of freeing up your time to travel without quitting your job, here’s a great article in the Traveler’s Notebook that gives you some advice on how to convince your boss that you are capable working efficiently from home.
Books and articles as mentioned in this post just reinforce that it is totally possible to live your life the way you want to, you’ve just got to want it bad enough.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
This is excellent. I am right in the middle of reading the 4 Hour Work Week and working remotely is the only professional life I have ever known. I work for a consulting company that uses a decentralized methodology to cut costs and increase employee satisfaction. The problem is that I am paid hourly. My boss has various ways to monitor whether I am at my desk or not and I am trying to figure out how to move to a salary based pay structure that does not force me to be a slave to the hourly wage. My boss is usually very flexible but he is stuck in the consultant mindset of billable hours. My wife and I are getting ready to embark on a year long journey (we leave in 11 weeks) and, up until a week ago, I thought I would need to quit my job to make this a reality. Now I am not so sure. Do you have any advice?