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To: pepsionice

There’s a book called The 4-Hour Work Week.
That’s one of the central ideas involved.
Using technology to do remote work and take work/vacation hybrids.
I could go to Ireland for a month.
Realistically, I can do 8 hours work in 3 hours.
I could spend the rest of my time seeing the sights and meeting the people.


14 posted on 09/18/2023 5:01:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

“Realistically, I can do 8 hours work in 3 hours.”

My nephew was the extreme example of that—he could do a full shift of work in one minute.

He was (and still is) a computer hacker/genius type—and got a job at a company where he worked the graveyard shift.

It took him a few months to figure out the job—and then he created a software program that performed all the tasks for the shift.

Since he also had street smarts he kept his software program a secret from his fellow employees and bosses.

He gradually improved his “performance” so the bosses realized he could handle the graveyard shift in his particular room all by himself and they moved a couple of co-workers to the day or swing shift. The co-workers were thrilled to get off the graveyard shift.

Now he had the privacy he needed. He would report to the graveyard shift and spend a minute initializing his software.

He spent the rest of the shift mostly sleeping with occasional reading if he woke up at some point.

The bosses kept trying to “promote” him to supervise the day or swing shift and he declined—kept this going for years.

The company never found out about any of it.

P.S. You might wonder what he would do if the phone rang with an emergency. His software prevented those emergencies from ever happening—it turned out they were due to human error in his shop—and he fixed all of that.


18 posted on 09/18/2023 5:17:09 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: EEGator

If this all made sense, I could see the Air Force having all admin people at one base in the US, and if you needed admin support...you’d crank up a VTC session with Amn Jones to get XYZ. Probably the same way with chapel support, mental therapy, and intelligence folks.


19 posted on 09/18/2023 5:28:40 AM PDT by pepsionice
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