[saurabhjha]

I have been working remotely for a few months now after spending many years in offices and I agree I am much more productive.

You might want to check out https://www.toptal.com

You might also like reading this book "Remote" written by BaseCamp founders. I read it last weekend and I think it's great.

[tbronchain]

+1 for Toptal as I'm currently working using them.

It probably won't suit everyone and I don't see it as a long term full-time thing, but it can help a lot to: - start working remotely, and start making money - to try the remote/nomad lifestyle and/or the time you find something else - to make some money while working on a side project (or a startup, or whatever) - to make some additional money while have a full time job - on weekends, evenings, whatever

I've tried websites like upwork, freelancers and guru.com before and the big advantage with Toptal is the easy and short time it take to hop on new missions. rom my experience, there is - so far - no need to compete with other freelancers to start working, and you can hop on some new stuff within a week or so. At a very reasonable rate.

On the long term, I think joining a remote team and/or a community of freelancers/nomads is definitely a must to avoid isolation.

Good luck :)

[StavrosK]

My experience with Toptal wasn't great, I tried to join and got a programming puzzle for the first interview (actually an online coding test), which was barely tangential to actual programming experience. They also want you to complete an unpaid project, which I heard takes around 30 hours.

[EduardoBautista]

From my experience, they weren't puzzles. They were pretty straightforward to do if you are familiar with arrays and hashes/dictionaries and when to use which.

[StavrosK]

Mine were different, the solution to one was literally "return len(x) - x.count(a)". If you didn't realize that, you spent an hour battling off-by-one errors.

[xchaotic]

I sent this to my ex-employer along with my resignation letter. Didn't help me, but they are now accepting remote workers.

[thingamarobert]

Thanks! I'm about to order the book. And the website is also very interesting.