Teach me your waysunemployment benefits
Is that with orange and green lounge chairs and deep shag on the floors?
I worked remotely for 10 of the last 13 years. There was little need for mainframe software engineers on site, because nobody but the operations staff has direct mainframe access anywhere. We don't interact with other staff, because nobody has a clue what we are talking about. I retired because we had stabilized the environment of the client I was working for, to the point that there had not been a problem in over a year. Mainframe software is very stable and failures are unheard of. The last outage I saw was in 2007. At the same time, I saw server outages for this client almost daily.
Same here, well... I can't complain because we are both freelancers and my professional activity is going extremely well so far. The point is that she is in a market with more money that can be put in the furnace.
Wait until the world is taken over by the adepts of the Cloud religion (it's a joke, it won't, not for the core services). Selling the customer data to a Bezos, Billy, or you name it. The customer always ends up paying 400% more than before, has a worse service than when he were in his datacenter, and lost any type of governance or change management over his environment. And when there is a problem you have to speak with an outsourced helpdesk in India that understands less than you.
