Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Remote Work

Remote Work

I get it, not all firms are capable of remote work.

Hamburgers have to be cooked. Plumbing has to be fixed. And hair needs cut.

But for more and more of us, this is not the place we find ourselves.

60% of our time is spent in software and 40% of our time spent in email.

I enjoyed this post on this issue.

And Saddington is right.

It all boils down to the autonomy of time.

Do you have a choice in it, or not?

Firms that are capable will compete over this perk more and more.

And then, like most other benefits, it will be expected.

Overlapping Vocations

Overlapping Vocations

Important news flash here: You can have overlapping vocations.

I know, I know. Crazy right?

This is true in both the formal and informal sense.

Informally, we all wear many different hats that identify us.

Formally, we can have more than one “job.”

Examples?

  • My grandfather was a rancher and worked for U.S. Customs.
  • Jon Saddington is a successful blogger and serial entrepreneur.
  • Ryan Holiday is a prominent writer and owns a marketing consulting firm.
  • Elon Musk is going to space, making cars, building underground tunnels, and computers that attach to your brain.

You are not stuck in one thing.

You can be good at more than one thing!

You can own part of a small oil company, be successful in real estate, and have a salaried job too.

A tormented genius sees himself as an isolated individual, laboring to satisfy his own personal needs. I look at myself as a part of several communities that form a whole network of overlapping vocations. I am an author, but also a husband to my wife, a father to my children, a grandfather to my grandchildren, a rancher in a small community of ranchers, a member of a church, and a citizen of the United States.

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell