Bloggy Business Today

While convincing the boss might be something that is difficult to do, an arguably harder proposition might be convincing yourself. It is quite possible that you are a fan of Bloggy Biz and have been reading the last month’s worth of posts with an amused expression on your face because you do not seriously believe that telecommuting could ever be helpful in your situation.

Well, if this sounds like you, then you need to convince yourself that telecommuting is worthwhile. The best way to do this is to consider the alternatives. Driving to work is what created the financial mess in the first place, since your car is running on gasoline. Buying a scooter or a new car would be extremely expensive and even if you can afford it, the increased mileage would only put you back in this situation within a year or two. Carpooling can be difficult at times, for reasons that have already been covered before.

That only leaves you with two options. These two options are mass transit and telecommuting. Mass transit is a great idea, but most people in the world do not live in areas where mass transit even exists, let alone is good enough to get you where you need to go. And even those that do will acknowledge that mass transit does have days of too many people and too many delays. If you take a terrible mass transit system to work for a week, I’d be willing to bet that telecommuting will start to become a lot more attractive quickly.

Well, it appears that the United States federal government has once again gotten it wrong. It really seems that regardless of whether there are Democrats or Republicans in office (including the supposed messiah of the environment Al Gore), the United States remains extremely retarded in their understanding of energy issues. For that reason and reasons that stem from that reason, there are very few energy analysts surprised at the most recent turn of events and even fewer that believe that the US has anyone to blame but themselves for the mess they are now in.

With that having been said however, the shooting up of demand and plateau of supply within the oil market has created problems for people all over the world, although in the United States with its unique suburb design the problems that middle class workers face have gotten to the level of ridiculous. A whopping $4 a gallon for gasoline has actually made some commutes too expensive for the job to be worth it and while there are many different solutions available, one that is going to be receiving a lot of play in the near future is telecommuting. In homage to that particular trend, Bloggy Biz will dedicate posting over the next month to addressing issues relating to telecommuting.