Don’t Take a Remote Job Where They Watch Your Hours

Mark Hake
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readJan 16

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I was recently offered a $45 per-hour job writing articles and delivering content on a remote work basis for a well-known advertising agency. But something was off.

In the middle of the original pre-screen interview — which was weirdly done on Microsoft Teams as if it was done by a computer — the interviewer said the company would require that my computer would have to have a…

Mark Hake
ILLUMINATION

CFA, MBA, and former hedge fund manager and investment research firm owner. Email me at mrhake@gmail.com if you have writing/research projects.