Lavoro con l'internet in Italia? Ha ha ha....no...da vero?
A week ago, I packed my entire life in to two small bags and moved to Italy. Specifically, I moved to Siena, a small medieval city 45 min south of Florence, often referred to as “the heart of Tuscany”.
Very little planning went in to this, and considering that I told Mike two weeks before leaving, he took the news pretty well (actually, now that I think about it, he really didn’t seem to care in the slightest). With the exception of a few time zone shifts, my job hasn’t changed at all, thanks to the miracle we call The Internet. I have my weekly meeting with Drew and Ruston via video chat, and the time difference actually gives me all morning to work on projects before anyone in Middleboro has arrived at the office.
My accommodations are, by any measure, modest. I am renting a room just outside Porta Romana that is roughly as long as I am tall, and there is an ominous looking dark spot on the wall (i’m thinking mold) that has grown an unsettling amount during the past few days. However, those are my only complaints. My room has a fantastic view of the nearby hills as well as a DSL connection - €10/month - that I think might be faster than Shotgun’s connection in Middleboro. All in all….just about perfect.
If you’d like to see some photos, I have recently started a wordpress blog (styled from scratch) at natelaffan.com. Visitors welcome!