Alek and I were briefly talking about living at work. What do you need to live? Somewhere to sleep, somewhere to put food, a place to get cleaned up (showers etc). So, if you were new to the country and
really couldn't find a place to live, you could live at work if you had to. I thought that I had just figured out our "fatal flaw" in our plan -> no laundry. But lots of places don't have laundry. And hell, there's a dry cleaners downstairs. Load up the fridge with some frozen food, grab your
therm-a-rest and a sleeping bag, some soap etc. and you're good to go.
And the sad thing is, it's got so many pluses: location, closeness to food / drug stores, etc., right downtown, short commute, fast internet, great view, no bugs, great running paths, water pressure in the showers.... Okay, I'm stopping now 'cause I'm getting depressed. One thing: no place to store my kayak. :-P
Listening to: Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
In the "high tech" bubble days I remember seeing articles with pictures of startups where there were no cubicles and your bunk bed, where you slept, was on top of your desk. Not kidding. These guys worked 16-20 hour days 7 days a week and didn't need apartments.
ReplyDeletewell yeah, in the bubble days they'd pay you $70,000 just for making a web page. :)
ReplyDeleteFor that kind of cash, who wouldn't do 16-20 hour days...
This reminds me of that Dilbert cartoon with the Japanese sleeping tubes..
You shouldn't be thinking of sleeping at work. You should be thinking how you can work from home.
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Ah, but communication between people is VERY important, and I think that would suffer a lot if I worked from home (at this stage). That and I am sure that connecting to stuff on the other side of the firewall would be a nightmare...
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