True Software Engineering Digital Nomads Don’t Exist
git commit code-ninja.js -m “I’m on a beach!” -m “I’m living the dream!”
I’m Leaving on a Backplane
More or less continually throughout the course of the current ongoing pandemic, and even occasionally before, articles are inevitably airdropped on the nomadically-deficient public glamorising how they can remote work from any number of paradisiacal locations.
As a progressive software engineer, who has been a remote worker for some time now even prior to the current ‘don’t come in to the office’ situation, it grates with me that this frankly unachievable lifestyle is dangled like an Nvidia RTX 3090¹ before not only the normals¹ but also the software engineering masses.
Of course if your tax return states³ your job title as ‘influencer’ and your aim in life is to sell assorted potions, high end crystalline carbon, or entice others to visit Dubai in order to sustain your own lifestyle then you’ll already have a team of people working for you behind the scenes in order for you to portray this ‘lifestyle’ as just so easy.
Back to the plot. One particularly galling example surfaced in a newspaper this morning that caught my attention and led directly to me penning this article. Specifically the…
