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  1. I have the "Health" app on my iPhone. It said I walked 2 miles yesterday. Somehow I don't quite believe it, even though I walked back and forth between the same two buildings twice yesterday. Still I do enjoy getting up and walking around a bit. It certain breaks up the monotony of staring at the same 4 walls all day.

  2. She is on call 24 x 7. So she can put in those sort of hours if she has to. Me, I'm a IT project manager. My programer, data center manager, and operations days are over. I work 40 hours a week unless I have an implementation going on.

    Still I do like the fact that I have meetings in different buildings around the capital. I have a chance to get up and walk a bit each day. It beats sitting in the same chair all day. My wife complains about that. It's definitely helping rehab my knee.

  3. One nice thing about telecommuting is you stay out of the office gossip for the most part. Some is inevitable.

    I was at GM when the started to reverse the telecommute policy (HP soon followed suit). They lost a lot of good people. Their global incident manager lived in Minnesota (no GM facilities there). He was on every outage call in the company worldwide. In 2016, they said he had to move to Warren Michigan just to keep his job (no relocation either). He said no, they terminated him.

    In my wife's case, her team is scatter all over the US with a lot located near Herdon VA. Still the company does not pay her to visit her team members. So she has never met her team face-to-face unless they live in Michigan.

  4. Don't get me wrong, it's a great gig while it lasts. However, I know a lot of companies are trying to cut back on telecommuting and trying to get people back to the office for more "team building" / direct interaction reasons. 

    I just get tired of getting up at 5:00 am, getting home at 6:00 pm every day and I occasionally find my wife either in bed or on the sofa napping. She had a long hard day. Sometimes I find it hard to be sympathetic. 

  5. Amateur. I put more miles than that on my Colorado a day!

    You're like my wife, who doesn't have to commute either. I can't imagine what it would be like if she had to actually get up before 7:30 or 8:00 am, shower, get dressed, drive to and from work each day, and have to interact with people face-to-face every day. Sometimes I think she'd have a melt down.

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