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I work for a commercial title company. So when wal-mart wants to buy, zone, construct and develop a nice swath of land, I'm the guy who helps them. Or some big developer wants to take a few hundred acres of pristine wilderness and drop houses onto it from their spaceship up above, I assist in their endeavor. Or when a slum lord needs to refinance his apartment building so he can have some vacation money while his tenants freeze in the dark... yup, I help him too.
Actually, it's not that bad. Most of our clients are good people. Even wal-mart was good to work with, compared to other corporate behemoths.
This job isn't normally worked from home. At other companies, it's very paper intensive. An individual commercial file is several feet high. A few years ago, my current boss and I met in a bar and discussed forming a new company that could do the whole thing paperless. We called it "Operation Bathrobe & Slippers". That took about a year to effectuate, but once that was done, we could enable people to work from remote locations. I could move to Orcas Island, and as long as I can get high speed internet I could connect to the work server and get work done. I keep my own hours, as long as things don't run late then everybody's happy.
It's not always fun, and there are a few disadvantages. You have to stay focused, and not sit and post on DU all day (like me), or work won't get done. But other than that, it's nice to work in bathrobe & slippers. And I don't miss the commute!!
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