Hey, thought I'd let the world know I'm still alive. :-)

@GlenH7 I will happily take the title. Happy to see you seem to be doing good too :) Hopefully they can get you all figured out.

@RobertHarvey Probably a little late now, but many times companies can hire up or down a grade from what's advertised. In other words, most companies can "make things work" for the right candidate.

@GlenH7 glad you're okay

Thanks!

Apparently, I still can't type. But I'm alert enough to hit the review queues. (Close. Close. Close. Skip Close. ...) :-)

Wed was one helluva day though, I have to admit. Will probably drop one doc and get a different one. He's wanting to go down a treatment path that isn't quite warranted and potentially has some increased risk that doesn't seem to be justified.

@JimmyHoffa There's an Atlanta company called "The Network" that is looking for remote people

go look on SO careers

@JimmyHoffa you don't need to work from home per se, you can always see about one of those "coworking spaces"

@JimmyHoffa The key to "work <=> home" dual nature is to have some place in the house where it is work and only work. To those I talked to, this is critical. One small room (need not be much bigger than a cube) set aside. All that is in it is work, what is not in it is not work.

That also helps when it comes to doing taxes and saying "yes, see, that room is the home office."

The other thing that some people have done is to make another room to the house or a mini house in the yard (depending if you are in an area where you can do that without zoning inspectors breathing down your neck).

My parents live out in the country... the zoning is such there that they only have scattered single family lots amongst agricultural and the smallest dividable lot is about 2 acres (you can't have two or more houses on a single lot). That keeps the developments out of the township. Furthermore, it would involve buying a full several acres (need to buy a field) to put a new single house in... and there are very few of those in the township in recent years. Avoided the housing bubble...

the neighboring township allowed for sub dividable down to large house lots and rezoning of residential... now they've got quite a few vacant large houses there. Too big to sell any time soon, too expensive for the mortgage.

But... back to the township my parents live in... its 95% farmers and the like and they've got that libertarian "don't tell me what I can and can't do with my house". Inspectors are purely paper only.

My parents built a new room, well... technically it was a porch, and then it was an roofed porch, and then it was an enclosed roofed porch, and then it was a room attached to the house. All of those transitions happened on subsequent days for the paperwork (one week).

Back when they built the house (~40 years ago), the building inspector for the township stapled a "looks fine" note on the side of the house. At that time, however, it was impossible to get to the front door to go in through there, and there were several other obvious "the house isn't ready for people to live in yet".

Anyways... if you do go for a home office, making a small house separate would allow for that being easy. The tumbleweed small houses have the technical advantage that they aren't actually houses (too small in many areas) and instead are trailers.

tumbleweedhouses.com

I'm sure that it would be possible to make one of those into a nice home office if you wanted to go that route.

(aside, I was looking at doing the "build a small house on my parents' hillside as a "this could work..." option. May still look at doing that in a few decades)

Whee: no close votes, no down votes, not on topic, answered in comment and self deleted: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/275588/…

(pointed the OP to two SO Q&A that appear to do what is being asked...)