Extreme Telecommuting? Enough Already

In an effort to curb the use of the word “extreme”, I think the government should start regulating/licensing/taxing same. There is no such thing as “Extreme Potato Chips”, “Extreme Soda”, or “Extreme [fill in inane, non-extreme act here]“. Now “Extreme Telecommuting”? C’mon.

But I digress.

CNN Money ran an article recently featuring Webby from WorkingNomad.com:

Telecommuting, of course, is hardly a new idea. Nearly everyone knows someone who works at home. But relatively few ask the next logical question: Why stay at home? Today there may be only hundreds of – or at most a few thousand – professionals who have decided, like Page, to make their living as they see the world. Their numbers seem to be growing, but no government tracks their movements. If they weren’t well-educated and relatively affluent, they would be called vagabonds. A better term might be “white-collar nomads.”

Living and working on the road came naturally to Page. “I’ve always been interested in travel,” he says. “If you have a laptop, there’s no reason you can’t work too.” He gets a steady income from a few simple websites that he’s built and plastered with ads. One of them, WorkingNomad.com, has become a clearinghouse for those who aspire to live the same way.

Hopefully I’ll be featured in the follow-up to this story some two years hence. That’s the plan anyway.