Hey Russell! > We recently did a reorganisation of the lists and the luv-jobs list was > removed because it had hardly any traffic and hardly any subscribers. There > are some topics where a small number of people is sufficient, but for jobs > most employers won't hiring at any given time and the ones that are might not > have a fit for your skills. So quantity is very important for jobs.
Yep, that's totally fair. > It sucks the way the government is trying to prop up real estate companies by > encouraging office based work. Especially when we have world-wide fuel > shortages and driving to work is extremely inefficient for petrol vehicles. Not just fuel, but also time and opportunities to get out of renting. I used to spend an hour and a half each day just to get between Pasoce Vale and University of Melbourne, and had to rent since I don't think I can pay off a one million dollar house before I'm dead. Working remotely allows spending that commute time on mentally recharging, and at least for a while made buying seem viable, since I was no longer married to the city. I could understand needing to be on site if there were a need for physical presence, eg data center work obviously. But when I can use async comms, Git, VPNs, and ssh to transcend time and space, expecting to chain me to a chair under painful fluoro lights in a distracting office from 9-5 (which is realistically more like 8-6 with commute) just seems perverse. > But there are companies hiring for remote. The last few positions I've been > in discussions with over Linkedin have emphasised the remote component of the > work up front. > > Some of the positions I've been in discussions with have been advertised as > partially remote work with the first few weeks on-site. If I was in your > situation I'd make plans around living in a motel for a few weeks at the start > of employment and spending one week a month in a motel. This of course > depends on your personal situation, my health is fine for living in motels and > I don't have any dependents who would suffer if I was away for a week but not > everyone is in that situation. > > I have idly considered actively seeking such work in places that are within a > day's driving such as Canberra. I try to avoid planes as much as possible, I > have caught Covid19 once and that was on a work flight. That's interesting. I don't have responsibilities like pets or dependents, so I'd be open to living away from home for a bit if travel and accommodation were paid for. > What are you the GNU maintainer for? Do you have an active Github account? > > https://github.com/etbe > > I've heard that some employers like to look at Github as part of the hiring > process, I've never been into github and only use it when forced to do so. It > shows my PRs but I don't have projects there. I have idly considered just > putting a heap of stuff there to make it look impressive. > > https://salsa.debian.org/users/etbe/projects > > I have stuff in Salsa (the Debian git system) but I don't know if employers > will be interested in that. Maybe I'm just better off not working for a > company that can't look at Salsa. I'm lead maintainer for GNU Datamash, and on the books as a possible successor to Arnold Robbins for gawk. Possibly maintaining gawk in future is very intimidating, so I balked a bit at first, but one thing I'm doing during this downtime period is trying to become more active there. I'm https://github.com/cryptarch on GitHub, but like you I don't have much on display there at the moment. I used to have a bunch of stuff, but I took it down eight years ago in protest over MicroSoft buying them out. I haven't got around to re-upping much, even though I'm now more resigned to the situation :P > > Thanks for your patience with this email, hopefully it's not too much noise > > for this list! > > The problem we face with this list is lack of content. So anything vaguely > related to Linux goes at this time. Hopefully after Phil's good work in > fixing the list software we can get more discussion happening but even if/when > that happens posts about Linux employment will remain on topic here. Cool, thanks :) ~ Tim _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
