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The Rise of The New Nomadics

women.timesonline.co.uk — If your ‘job’ entails loitering in coffee shops, armed with only a laptop and mobile, then you’re part of a brave new world..Ditching the office is the most modern way to operate these days, it seems. Punchin culture is out – a surgical attachment to a laptop and a mobile phone, and a willingness to travel, are in.

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  • inactive, on 03/25/2008, -0/+12 Do..."Paying your “office rent” in the currency of food and drink" ... Don't..."Being on first-name terms with the baristas – a sign of poor productivity. Time to relocate" (from the article)
  • inactive, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10I haven't been to the office in about 6 months and I'm a full-time employee. I love you Internet!!
  • swagv, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11Wow. Didn't realize The Times recycled year-old articles from other newspapers:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ ...
  • WikiEasy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7The Times writer obviously wrote it while sitting at a Starbucks.
  • bromac, on 03/25/2008, -2/+8I don't need to carry a laptop and a headset, drinking $5 coffees, just to be a trendy douche. I can can work from home.
  • BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6Sweet, I knew the time of office culture was done, but I didn't know what new herd to follow. NOW I HAVE PURPOSE!!!
  • Markpdotcom, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Unlike your comment.
  • chudgoo, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5THIS JUST IN!
    Hipsters sitting at starbucks all day are now writing fluff pieces to attempt to justify their scenewhoring.
  • thailand1972, on 03/25/2008, -2/+6I've been a "mobile worker" for 4 years now. If you make money from the internet, it is possible to work anywhere that has a half-decent internet connection. Office life was OK, but it's less productive and more time consuming (traveling to and from the office, meaningless meetings etc).
  • LokitheComplex, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Reading between the lines it also means minus ten for job security, perks, career structure and employer responsibility.
  • Ferre1, on 03/25/2008, -2/+5I love doing my work in Coffeeshops, but then again, I'm Dutch and live in Amsterdam. Our coffeeshops are not like the ordinary Starbucks. :-)
  • inactive, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2"“By the time I’d finished writing my book, the Starbucks staff were calling me Little Miss Triple Shot,” says Alexandra Heminsley, author of Ex and the City."

    Ex and the city... OMG WOMAN SO CLEVAR! ***** me running I hope she fails so miserably she never gets another writing job again. Stupid ass titles like that are a crime against publishing.
  • disappointed, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2A nomad is someone who travels to wherever they can find what they need to survive (i.e. work). Telecommuting is the precise opposite of this.
  • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2They rehired Jayson Blair as a ghost writer?
  • fhernand, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3So gold-plated gadgetry gives you bad-looks, but that gold-plated bluetooth headset ist top five material?
  • Plotinus, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Sadly, the Times hasn't been a serious newspaper for a decade or more now. It was bought by Rupert Murdoch whose other UK newspapers include our top tabloid (think naked breasts on page 3 as a guideline to news content and accuracy) so this doesn't surprise me.
  • superal1394, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4Yeah this isn't really new... Freelance Journalist? anyone?

    How about every halfway decent photographer of the 20th century?

    We've had modern day Nomads for a long time, the only difference is they've gotten alot more vocal now that they have a soap box to stand on anywhere they go and a willing audience of millions.
  • KMartSheriff, on 03/25/2008, -2/+3Dugg down for Beijing Olympics.
  • o0joshua0o, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Envy, on the other hand, is a serious matter.
  • bromac, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2We won't even begin to compare salaries. And there's no Starbucks here in Bermuda for me to look like a douche at. I'm quite happy not buying status in a glass, and working from a sunny veranda in a subtropical place. And who's jealous again? Not I.
  • antivibe, on 03/25/2008, -2/+1interesting.
  • KMartSheriff, on 03/25/2008, -6/+3Jealousy is a funny thing.
  • retireyoung, on 03/25/2008, -9/+0I travel non-stop so finding a good wifi connection is the next thing I do after finding a hotel. Finding a hotel with good wifi is even better.
    http://2008gamesbeijing.com

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