Date:         Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:14:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Michelle Holland <mlholland@CIVMAIL.CIRC.UAB.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Michelle Holland <mlholland@CIVMAIL.CIRC.UAB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Anybody got experience of "telecommuting" SAS assignments
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I worked for a company full-time in the office for six months.  Then
after my baby was born I switched to telecommuting.  It's pretty much
full time in the sense that I do all of my work at home, but it's not
necessarily 40 hrs a week.  It works great for me because I can be with
my baby and still work.  I use sample data sets at home to write the
code and then I dial in and run the programs in batch on the full
data(1gig).  The only hassles have been monetary.  I provide my own
computer, printer, phone line, fax machine.  I also went from monthly
salary to hourly pay and lost all my benefits(vacation, holidays, sick
leave, etc).  I guess you give and take.  I'm interested in picking up
more projects, but I don't have very many contacts at present.  Still
gotta pay those bills.