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OK, I'll bite. What is a DBA other than a legal structure for a somewhat anonymous form of self-employment?
My experience with Working From Home at two different times at two different employers, one Vivid related and one not, is that WFH is highly inefficient! Questions and business process steps that are completed within minutes in a staffed office, require hours (or even over-night) to be completed when the same staff is Working From Home.
My experience is WFH is much more efficient. Issues that previously involved shuffling to the conference room for a meeting and then "thinking it over" a few hours to days are instead handled in 5 minutes with a Teams call. And much fewer interruptions from Chatty Kathy.
I telecommuted from two vacation homes from 2009 onwards. By the time I broke 60, it became increasingly hard to land my next thing. I spliced together some 1099 contracts for beer money so I wasn’t touching savings but the pandemic put an end to it since everyone went remote and I was competing against Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean engineers who get paid 40 cents on the dollar. If something dropped in my lap, I’d take it but I am behaving as though I’m retired.
In the long run, telecommuting is going to accelerate offshoring those jobs. Americans are expensive.
OK, I'll bite. What is a DBA other than a legal structure for a somewhat anonymous form of self-employment?
My experience with Working From Home at two different times at two different employers, one Vivid related and one not, is that WFH is highly inefficient! Questions and business process steps that are completed within minutes in a staffed office, require hours (or even over-night) to be completed when the same staff is Working From Home.
I honestly thought that was a pretty well-known profession. DataBase Administrator.
I am retiring in July. I was working from home since October. Also worked from home last March-May.
We have a small office- 5 people. I am having knee replacement in April. I went back to work, 2 weeks ago, to help train my replacement and also get things in order while I am recuperating. I plan to come back in late May/early June to wrap things up.
My experience is WFH is much more efficient. Issues that previously involved shuffling to the conference room for a meeting and then "thinking it over" a few hours to days are instead handled in 5 minutes with a Teams call. And much fewer interruptions from Chatty Kathy.
In my world, it means Administrator, not analyst. I have never worked anywhere with a "Database Analyst" - but I guess they exist.
I general DBAs are Database Administrators (I manage of bunch of them). If the company is reliable on 2 of them, they need to create a transition plan including proper documentation. Every good DBA can be replaced, but unfortunately some DBAs (job security? feel that they need to own the application?) don't do this. It's part of management to ensure everyone is replaceable.
Having said that, there's no reason why someone in IT is forced to come to the office.
I am retiring in July. I was working from home since October. Also worked from home last March-May.
We have a small office- 5 people. I am having knee replacement in April. I went back to work, 2 weeks ago, to help train my replacement and also get things in order while I am recuperating. I plan to come back in late May/early June to wrap things up.
Congratulations, and enjoy! (not the surgery, but the subsequent retirement)
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