What do you do?
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I work from home. I keep a full time job and a part time job. I tend to stay in the biotech/pharma industry, and I still like the job title "Generalist". Full stack can get fucked.
I bailed on the SF Bay Area lifestyle when my 3rd kid was born. It's not worth the stress, cost, and time spent commuting. I'm now about an hour north of Sacramento in a red county.
I bailed on the SF Bay Area lifestyle when my 3rd kid was born. It's not worth the stress, cost, and time spent commuting. I'm now about an hour north of Sacramento in a red county.
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Question, what do you do in biotech/pharma to be able to work from home? I want that
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I've been doing technology bullshit since the mid 90s. I'm rounded enough that I'm top line support for most groups (network, database, development, sysadmins, ops) so I have a constant stream of piddly bullshit to fill in the gaps. The main thing that keeps me happy is that I get to prototype all new projects. If we need to do a proof of concept or wrangle some kind of integration I have near total control over it.
I do not work for huge companies (and never will again) but we provide software for several enormous pharma companies.
My advice for working remote is to work in office for some amount of time and make yourself a known value. Once that value is established you can negotiate a partial remote to full time remote position, provided the company is cool.
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Thus the benefit... so you actually get things done without 100 lemmings coming to your office per day.
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I'm not sure you want to pursue an analogy where you're leading lemmings around since that just means you're the one walking off the cliff first
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This is not inaccurate at times. :|
Keeping in mind that Cliff is randomly moving around.
//Alcoholic
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Wantonsoup95
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I work in a family owned feed mill. Grandpa bought the business in 1957.
I'm in charge of doing anything bag related, mixing feed for anything from horses, calves, goats, chickens, you name it.
We catered to the ever dwindling small single family farms. But hobby farming is on the rise.
It's hard work but I love our clientele. A lot of them have been coming there since before I was born.
Picture spam.
I'm in charge of doing anything bag related, mixing feed for anything from horses, calves, goats, chickens, you name it.
We catered to the ever dwindling small single family farms. But hobby farming is on the rise.
It's hard work but I love our clientele. A lot of them have been coming there since before I was born.
Picture spam.
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Vinen
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Thats actually pretty cool.
What animals are the feed you produce for?
Tried to google you guys and all I see is a lawsuit
Wantonsoup95
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Thats actually pretty cool.
What animals are the feed you produce for?
Tried to google you guys and all I see is a lawsuit
Just about any kind of animal really. Majority is horse, bovine (cow and steer at any age) and pigs. Chicken feed is a lot of foot traffic, having just a handful for eggs is huge around here and we make our own egg layer mash feed.
And Wayne Feeds is an old time producer that we used their products ages ago. Just kept the sign up. We have a lot of old stuff there, that corn grinder is from 1945 which we put in 5 years ago when the one from 1921 finally blew apart.
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I have fond memories of going to the feed mill with my Grandpa. I loved the sensations of it.. the smell of the grain mixed with his pipe tobacco smoke and the friendly conversations. It is a whirlwind of good recollection.
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Do you work in a room that smells like stale pizza and even staler pee?
Oh yeah, and our CRO decided it would be a great idea to put a high res live stream of our NOC playing in the front of the sales office for all our clients and prospective clients to see, even though we sometimes have classified government system information up on our screens. So now we get to work in what is effectively a very smelly fishbowl.
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