Where do you work?" delivers the local weather
forecast from Sydney to Chicago
"Planet Earth." through his website at
http://www.weather4you.info ? So
Sound familiar? No? Well, it much for sticking your head out
should. More and more people are the window.
working from home on the
Internet, and there are two I have a client in the UK who
things you should know about your sells ball bearings through his
office when you work on the site at http://www.gm-exports.com
Internet. to every country in the world ...
except the UK, of course.
First, your office will be very, Doesn't that make the local
very small and very, very lonely, hardware store redundant?
as I chronicled in my hermit
trilogy at Office Politics in the Global
http://www.thehappyguy.com/hermit Office
.html .
My clients live on almost every
Second, your office will be very, continent, and the only thing
very big and full of many, many that occasionally gets in the way
people from every corner of the of seamless communication are
planet, mostly trying to sell time-zone differences. (If
things to each other. That is Columbus would have minded his
because when you work from home, own business, we wouldn't face
Planet Earth is your office...and even that challenge!)
theirs, too.
What's more, my clients are not
For instance, would you believe always English-speaking, and
that a man in the Ukraine neither are all of my clients'
websites. Can you say the way.) So we officially learn
netzwerküberwachungservice? I to spell and to count the way the
do search engine optimization in British do (but they are still
four languages - English, French, not peeps). Nevertheless,
Spanish and German - which tells Americanisms sneak across the
you something about the global border by osmosis, perhaps due to
office in which some of my an attack dog budget shortfall at
clients sit. the illegal aliens department.
At least I'll know what a mile is
But there is more than just - it's that thing people want to
language that makes the global take when I give them an inch.
office a tricky workplace to
navigate. Aside from the lack of And what about currency? I make
water coolers and washrooms, most it simple. I use US dollars,
of the world works in metric, but because that really is the
the biggest Internet market works currency of the Internet. But I
in imperial. So some customers also accept Paypal payments, so
won't know what a mile is, and anybody can input their favorite
others won't know what a currency and out pops US dollars
kilometer is. on my end. I wish more people
would do that. I could use more
And everybody spells funny to dollars.
someone else. Is it honor or
honour? Center or centre? Folks If none of that phases you,
or peeps? consider time zones. Just as a
client in Australia is waking up,
Fortunately for me, I live in your client in the United States
Canada. 95% of Canadians live is going to bed. And how will
within a stone's throw of the US they reach you when you are not
border. (They are all folks, by in the office. Tools like email
to phone services ( my office - Planet Earth.
http://ww.email2phone.net )can
help. So can insomnia. Hmm. Right now I am reading The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Nobody twenty years ago would Galaxy...I wonder if I can work
have imagined that you and I from home on the Internet on any
could sit at home and type words other planets...
into a TV screen to make a
comfortable living. Welcome to
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