So… remember that potential job I mentioned? I applied for it today. I kid you not, literally ten minutes later I got a reply saying that I'd be "perfect" — I absolutely wasn't expecting even a response on a Sunday, let alone such an enthusiastic one! — but, predictably, questioning whether the distance thing would be an issue.
Naturally, it would be an issue, but this is also 2019, and there are plenty of people who work jobs remotely from home and perhaps go in to their actual "workplace" fairly infrequently. After all, I've worked several jobs like that over the last few years; most notably GamePro and USgamer, but also some of the stuff I've done in-between has been home-based, too.
I guess it depends how traditional the company is about this sort of thing — and how much they want me. I haven't had a response to my explanation of the situation — and the things I'm hoping for — as yet, but I wasn't expecting an immediate one. (Well, actually, the pessimist side of my brain was, and it was expecting that immediate response to be "well, fuck off then"… but thankfully that hasn't happened at least.)
Instead, I imagine my proposals are the sort of thing that would have to be discussed by people in charge to see what is workable. And I'm fine with that.
To be honest, it's very pleasant to be in a situation where I'm applying for a job because I want to rather than because I have to. This is, to be perfectly honest, not really a situation I've been in before, as I've not had the best of luck with employers over the years. I was made redundant from my very first job after a year there, my second one gave me a nervous breakdown and things haven't exactly been rosy ever since; my current day job, as much as I complain about it being boring, is the most stable employment I've had in the last 20 years.
The upside of this arrangement, then, is that if everything falls through because I live a hundred miles away from my potential workplace, I haven't lost anything. The downside, of course, is that this job sounds great, and I think I'd enjoy it a lot more than what I'm doing now — so if everything falls through because I live a hundred miles away from my potential workplace, it'd still be a bit of a bummer. But I have to focus on that upside; I'm in a good position right now, and the (apparent) strength of my application hopefully puts me in a good place to negotiate, too.
We'll see. Keep your fingers crossed for me, dear reader.
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