Digital Work Futures - The Islands Perspective
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -David Crouch is your host in an examination of Digital Work Futures. He chats with a range of people who have made a meaningful career / vocation away from large cities to living and working on the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. These people began working remotely from home, and living a different dream for their life, years and decades before any pandemic generated interest in Remote Work, Live Where You Want, and WFH (Work From Home). Valuable insights on how to successfully create a different work future for yourself. DISCONTINUED
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Episodes
Interview with David Rumsey
September 01, 2020 04:01 - 33 minutes - 27.1 MBDavid tells us how he accidentally got into the translation business while studying for his PhD and that job has allowed him to work from home and to live where he has wanted for almost 30 years. He clearly loves the freedom of working from home and has some insights in how to best manage it. He also discusses the translation business, and how it is like any other B2B knowledge-based services business. Finally he gives some interesting perspectives on the financial effects of the gl...
Series Introduction
August 04, 2020 22:08 - 2 minutes - 3.28 MBThe Gulf Islands of British Columbia are home to many digital workers who have chosen to live here yet still continue to do similar knowledge based work that they were doing before. They even run whole expert-based businesses remotely, not only surviving by thriving. In these interviews we find out exactly how they made the change and what their work experiences are
Interview with Holly MacDonald
July 20, 2020 00:54 - 26 minutes - 21.2 MBHolly tells us how her and her husband decided to leave Vancouver in 2007 and to live a simpler, cheaper rural life style. After considering a lot of different factors they chose Salt Spring. Her husband maintained his existing employment allowing Holly the opportunity to simultaneously move and start her own business: providing e-learning and training development services. This business has changed and grown over the years, but she has done very well, better than she first thought...