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stariel25 's review for:
The 4-Hour Workweek
by Timothy Ferriss
This book was mildly entertaining, enough to get me through it at least. However, I don't think I'm about to start a drop-shipping company selling knitting instruction for metalheads just yet. ;)
The thing that the author seems to be unable to grasp is that some jobs really *can not* be done remotely. I used to be jealous of my work-from-home friends in Boston, but as a laboratory scientist, my job was just not remote-able. I mean, I suppose I could buy thousands of dollars of equipment, ventilation, and freezers. Then, buy some land somewhere remote and build an outbuilding with the proper gas hookups, fume hoods, and a backup generator to ensure my -80 freezers never lost power, but at that point it would be nearly impossible to get funding since I wasn't part of an established group, and research science operations rarely make money. Not to mention the electric bills!
I guess to put these principles into practice I need to have a job where I spend all my time on a computer.
The thing that the author seems to be unable to grasp is that some jobs really *can not* be done remotely. I used to be jealous of my work-from-home friends in Boston, but as a laboratory scientist, my job was just not remote-able. I mean, I suppose I could buy thousands of dollars of equipment, ventilation, and freezers. Then, buy some land somewhere remote and build an outbuilding with the proper gas hookups, fume hoods, and a backup generator to ensure my -80 freezers never lost power, but at that point it would be nearly impossible to get funding since I wasn't part of an established group, and research science operations rarely make money. Not to mention the electric bills!
I guess to put these principles into practice I need to have a job where I spend all my time on a computer.