Remote work is bad for you

How people willingly slow down their career

Remote work is bad for you. When you’re a beginner it can totally wreck your career or postpone your true growth by years. And I’m saying that from a position of someone who is 100% working remotely.

Look at my hypocrisy! Here’s me drinking a fresh coconut and writing a script for a lecture while sitting at a beach in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

He’s living that awesome, remote life and doesn’t want others to have a taste!

Remote vs onsite

I’ll start with showing you how I got to know both sides of work and then we’ll get into the reasons for not starting remote.

My very first paid design gig happened in 1998. Then I worked in a couple of companies for many years, until in 2011 I started my own business, which started remote, transitioned to an office based enterprise and went back to remote.

Here’s a visual for context.