Re: Telecommuting

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:24:33 +0800, Steve Underwood <steveu@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Randy Yates wrote:
"DJOrtley" <DJOrtley@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

What are peoples' experiences with telecommuting and signal
processing?

I recently (in the past year) had the privilege of securing a
contract that was all-software so I could perform it from the
comfort of my own computer. It was absolutely wonderful.

However, my feeling is that these types of contracts are not
that common. In my case the job was all-software, but most
DSP involves hardware, and when there's custom hardware involved
it is much more likely you will be required to be on-site, e.g.,
to do integration, use test equipment, etc.

The test equipment I used in my early career cost many years salary. The
test equipment I use now costs maybe a month's salary. Whilst I am not
doing exactly the same kind of work, I think equiping yourself has
become a great deal more affordable over the years.

Steve

I've worked from home for about five years, but it really depends on
who you're working for and what you're doing. You also need to be the
sort of person who can do that...it doesn't work for everybody.

And I agree with Steve's point about test equipment. Everyone in our
little company right now works from home, and we just expanded from
having two 'labs' to three, all in the homes of the guys doing the
work. One of the 'labs' is instrumented primarily with chipscope
(which works on Xilinx FPGAs), so the equipment cost was nearly zilch.

Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms
Abineau Communications
http://www.ericjacobsen.org
.

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