RE: Work from home (Telecommute)

["Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Have you tried elance.com? I did a couple of small freelance jobs with them. 
However, you tend to compete with off shore companies that bid really 
low..so good luck!

Also I have worked from home a couple of times and it is great if you have a 
good relationship with your supervisor. If not it can be very tricky and 
annoying. I had one last summer that let me work from home but would 
basically forget about me until the last minute, and I really had to get 
used to feeling like I was annoying him. You really are not at all in the 
loop and without good communication with your supervisor..it can be tricky.

The other tech writer here works at home as he is part-time and I act as the 
go-between with him and the other people in the office, and I constantly 
have to remind them to contact him about his projects and to answer his 
emails etc.

The bottom line really is the communication...if it is good, its a great 
situation! I had one boss who let us work from home and always answered our 
emails and IM'ed us...that was ideal!!

Melissa




From:  Hina vaswani <hinavaswani -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To:  techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
CC:  lataudnani -at- hotmail -dot- com, hinavaswani -at- hotmail -dot- com
Subject:  Work from home (Telecommute)
Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:04:14 -0800 (PST)