How many hours a day dose a "remote" developer work. Both as contract and "full-time".

I'm am doing that right now!! I work from home except one day a week. Meeting day.

Any ways, obviously I work salary so set money each month. I do work 40-70 hrs a week. For a start up, especially if your the only dev, expect phone calls and texts all weekend. Which if you do freelance is par for the course.

Hardest part in my situation is the company's executives are very good with great experience with business but not a web based business. So some ideas they come up with they think are great but don't take into account the user's experience and/or seo even when I present analysts and facts their emotions take priority which can be frustrating as it's my baby too.

@jekinney Awesome Jekinney, I'm super excited and was just wondering what to expect. What would you say would need to be the bare minimum of an internet connection, as far as Mbps goes

@jwavess Where I live my only option is Century Link DSL. It works fine for skype etc. so if you can skype your probably fine. I don't have issues with Github, bitbucket, ssh into servers. I do always use envoyer and forge which helps a lot if your net is slow as they take your app and deploy from source control. If you need to ftp into a server that is where IMO slow internet can cause issues as it's already a slow connection type anyways. Logging into the live database with a slow connection can be nerve-racking to as you could click twice and make two changes by mistake.

12Mbps down and 4 up when I moved here. Now I have 40 down 15 up.

@jekinney kk, I've notice there are series on Laracast for forge and enjoyer, yet I have NO idea what they are at this point, simply because I haven't looked into them yet. My goal is, I'm 22 now, by the time I'm 26 to live on a sail and code from my boat, so Im factoring in what kind of internet connection speed ill need to get. When your coding, are they tracking your hours through out the day to make sure your doing a "nice to five" or do they give you a set of tasks to complete by a certain date and your spend your own timing doing it whenever, exact you Skype them when they ask and you just ended up coding 40 to 70 hours week. Last question, kind of the biggest one. As a developer do you typically just do bug fixing and add ons, Im just a little hazy as to what exactly the developer dose. I know how to code, how to use Laravel and build a site. I just don't see what else needs o be done once the project is completed / built.

Seth

@ jwavess

Satellite like Hughsnet would work fine except when it's cloudy and such!

Hour tracking not really. I either work as salary like now or like a auto mechanic charges for 10 hours of labor whether or not it takes him/her 5 or 15 doesn't matter. I do work off milestones which is like you pointed out: These are the tasks in priority. in a weekly meeting I give update on whats done and if priorities change we adjust time as needed. Sometimes things come up, emergency bug fix or a priority needs escalated so I need to finish what I am doing (stopping point) and move to the new priority. Some people hate that, I don't mind but ti happens quite a bit.

I think of a developer as a back end code person who is expert at PHP, Laravel but can do server side stuff, database stuff, some frontend. Designer is mainly frontend so CSS, Javascript, html, seo. Sever person, well an expert on servers and Database person an expert on databases.

Well I can do HTML, css and some javascript I am by no means good at at (matter of fact I despise it and rather not touch it), where I am more comfortable with PHP and Laravel. Decent at server and Sql. I know lot of people advertise they are good at a huge laundry list of languages and frameworks, I find that as bull crap generally. Either they are a genius or are barley adequate at all of them (good at many master at none) and thus be horrible or very inefficient (or both). As @JeffreyWay stated be great at something!!!

@jekinney so im a genius :D JK! yea thats why I didn't choose to go with something like Angular.js and why Vue is more of a ideal choice. Yes its a front end framework BUT its not as robust as Angular.js and or React, plus with some Jquery it can be just as efficient.

You gave me a really good insight Jekinney, thank you!

Seth