As the Coronavirus rampages around the world, there has never been a better time to be “geographically ambiguous.”
What does that mean? Geographically ambiguous means that one cannot tell where one is working, geographically.
Webster defines ambiguous as “doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness.” So when your workplace is geographically ambiguous, the people you are working with don’t know if you’re working from next door, or from Malaysia.
I have worked remotely for the past 22 years as a computer consultant. And when most people ask me where my business is, I always tell them it is geographically ambiguous.
I’ve been working in the computer software support business sine 1991 when I started at a company called WordPerfect. I was still in college and needed a job and since I wrote all my English papers in WordPerfect, I decided to apply there.
I spent the next six years developing my technical chops, learning as much as I could in that technical soup of a company, jumping from one technical team to the next…
