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Round 1: Meet and greet From: Lisa Khoo Jan. 28, 2002 6:26 PM Hello Heather, Antonia, Luke, Craig and Susanne, Thanks again in advance for being part of this project. Hopefully we can learn some things from each other during our exchange. Can we begin with introductions... From: Antonia Palmer Date: Jan. 29, 2002 12:19 PM Hello, My name is Antonia Palmer. I am 28, I live in Toronto, and I am currently working as an educational multimedia designer/developer. I have been working within the new media industry for approximately eight years. My experience over that time includes a wide variety of design and development roles, working with Web, multimedia, stand-alone applications, and wireless media. I have been within my current role for only a month now, it is a short-term contract position, and I work four days a week from home. So, I am seeing things through new and optimistic eyes at the moment. I look forward to this discussion. I hope to contribute to the panel, and also learn from the stories and experiences that others have to tell. Cheers, Antonia From: Heather Finley Date: Jan. 30, 2002 6:15 PM Hi, I'm Heather Finley. I'm 37 and live with my husband in downtown east Toronto. I'm a marketing writer with a focus on technology and manufacturing. Most of my 15-year career has been marketing-related, however I went back to school eight years ago for the two-year journalism program at Ryerson. I'd spent time with some good companies, but went back to school because I wanted to focus full-time on writing. I've been freelancing ever since and, between then and now, it seemed there were limitless opportunities for me. Because my focus is primarily technology and manufacturing (I love science-y stuff), though, the tech crash desiccated a lot of those opportunities. But there are still are companies hiring. I have a love-hate relationship with my feast-or-famine job. During the famine, you're scared you'll never work again, but when you're feasting, you're desperately trying to cover all bases and not let anyone down. Family and friends have to take a back seat at that point and a single high-maintenance client can cause a domino-effect collapse of everything else you're doing. It's isolating and scary sometimes, but in other times, it's relaxing and you've got the quiet (or the music/pets/fresh air) you need to do excellent work. In good months, the money's wonderful, in bad, it's terrifying. From: Craig Lee Date: Feb. 1, 2002 8:17 AM Hi, Luke, Susanne, Lisa, Antonia, Heather. I'm Craig Lee, a policy adviser in Ottawa for the Government of Canada's communications policy. I'm also a freelance automotive reporter and features writer for Southam. I write for the Ottawa Citizen's weekly "Wheels" section.
I write my automotive features for Wheels at home in the evenings and on weekends. This should be fun, sharing experiences with telework. From: Luke Puxley Date: Feb. 5, 2002 7:25 AM Hi all, My name is Luke Puxley. I'm 24, currently living in Calgary. I work as a project manager for a Web development company in Halifax. My fiancee and I moved here in November for her job and my boss and I decided to give this arrangement a go. I've been working in the Web development business for 3½ years, but I've been out of university for just under a year. My work runs the gamut from working with clients to develop specs, to writing marketing materials, to writing actual code for Web sites. I'm finding that working from home offers a number of unique challenges so am interested to hear other people's takes on how to make it work. v Cheers, Luke From: Susanne Hasulo Date: Feb. 3, 2002 11:44 AM Hi all, Guess I'm last to the virtual table. Great to meet everyone online. I'm looking forward to these discussions. Here's my intro: My name is Susanne, I'm 32 and have newly relocated to the suburbs in Oakville after living in Toronto for more than 10 years. I've been in the magazine biz for approx. 10 years and have been freelance writing and editing since 1995, primarily in magazines, but slowly moving into writing about tech for print and the Web. I'm the managing editor of a magazine called Information Highways, which focuses on e-content trends for Internet professionals. My husband John and I have two small boys: Christopher, almost three, and Justin, almost seven months. I never thought in a million years I'd be freelancing from a home office but I'm lucky to have had steady work for almost seven years now. It's pretty hard for me to imagine myself in a regular office environment on a full-time basis. That's it for now. Thanks for including me in this discussion. Susanne Round 1: Meet and greet Round 2: Challenges: That long-distance feeling Round 3: Benefits: Pets, PJs, peace and quiet Round 4: Tools of your trade: technology Round 5: The work-life balance: setting boundaries
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