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You'd rather fight Tyson's traffic than ride Metro?  I used to love being able to take the rail downtown rather than fight New York Ave and I-395.  Plus, it was a hell of a lot easier to find parking at New Carrollton vs. downtown.  To each his own I guess...

LostInSC wrote:

You'd rather fight Tyson's traffic than ride Metro?

Hell yes.  I live in Fairfax, it'll take me 30-45 minutes to get to Tysons.  Also, I currently ride a shuttle bus to and from my apartment to the Vienna metro.  It's not bad in the morning (when it's on time) but in the evening it sucks because I get stuck waiting.  My 1:30 (each way) commute is going to turn into 30-45 minutes.

VWVancouver wrote:

I dunno if I could work from home, too many distractions. What exactly do you do Chris?

I typically accomplish more when working from home for several reasons.

1. No commute, so I don't have to get up so fucking early = more energy throughout the day from not being so tired.  No commute home means I don't eat dinner and then immediately go to bed.
2. I work better when I have a TV or music playing softly in the background and I can't do either when I'm at a client site.
3. It's easier to schedule other things like a doctor's appt and work around it without totally screwing up the ENTIRE day.
4. More peace.  I don't work well at all when someone is breathing down the back of my neck.
5. I can attend teleconferences without hunting for a damn telephone.  (I have a LOT of teleconferences.)
6. I can have phone conversations without worrying who is listening.  This is a BIG issue when I'm at a client site and frequently causes me to put something off for later instead of just getting it done.

So there you go.  6 Reasons Chris is More Productive Working From Home.

BTW, I'm a Consultant.  I ... um... consult.  When you see commercials on TV about "e-Business on Demand" that's what I do.

baomo wrote:

yea WMATA sucks.

CAN I GET A WITNESS???

Well I can't publicly talk about specific projects.  But I'm in the Public Sector Supply Chain Management group.  So what that means is my clients are mostly federal agencies but could also be state and local governments, educational institutions, or healthcare providers.  When they need IT solutions to improve anything relating to their supply chain (logistics, product lifecycle, asset management, ERP, and more) we do that for them.  There are other groups for non-SCM contracts and then a whole other division for Private Sector, but this is what I do.

Nobody ever understands what I do so I always ask "You know those commercials on TV that advertise 'eBusiness on Demand?"  And they say yes.  So I say "Good, that's what I do."  Haha

Yeah, see, that's what I'm wondering, too.  I am slightly in doubt that Chris is making code changes to ERP software to customize it for Big Blue's clients.  I could very easily be wrong, but since I do roughly the same thing for my company and after five years still don't have a complete understanding of our systems (which include SAP, EXE, Icon, Oracle, and a bunch of heavy-duty homegrown apps), I don't see what a newbie consultant could do.

I don't mean any offense to you, Chris, but I would be skeptical if a recent grad walked into my office and told me how my company could improve it's SCM or ERP software, especially if they didn't have any understanding of my company's existing (usually highlycustomized) solution.  Now, if you're working on multi-year IBM contracts that already have an existing consultant base, it's a lot different....

Btw, if you ever have to spend some time in RTP, let me know and we can get together.

Damn, all the gobbedly-gook that you spew makes your forum title perfect.

Hostile wrote:

Damn, all the gobbedly-gook that you spew makes your forum title perfect.

Thanks.  I've always had a knack for the gobbledy-gook.