I suppose I should have added a little bit to that last post.
Jeff and I have been sharing the cheapest prepaid phone you can buy for over a year. I dumped my cell about two weeks after taking to the road in 2008, but we still had Jeff's on-call misery device known as a Blackberry. My stomach did a little flip (not in a good way) every time it made that little e-mail chime and I wanted to throw it out the window when it actually rang.
On February 19th, 2009 (my birthday) Jeff forgot that it was in his sweatshirt pocket and walked into the waves off the Florida coast. The phone didn't survive :) :) And since it was a work phone and we were on the road it could not be replaced until we arrived in Austin 8 weeks later. That was
positively the best, most relaxing time ever. Ever.
We said our final (happy) goodbyes to the Blackberry in October of 2009 when the company Jeff worked for decided to dump all company phones. We originally looked into whether we should replace it with our own smart phone so that Jeff could continue to work while we were away from home, but ultimately we decided not to. Not only is the amount of radiation given off by those phones incredibly scary, but we simply didn't want to live anymore of our lives with technology than we had to.
I hope that my life is always interesting enough that I don't want to stop what I'm doing to answer the phone, text someone about it, or read about what someone else is doing at the moment.
Jeff changed his work email signature to contain our new phone number, but listed it as an "Emergency Contact Number" and life is truly better for it.
No one, including us, thought that Jeff could tell the company that supplied his corporate salary that he would now be working entirely remotely. We were wrong. No one, including us, thought it was safe to dump the smart phone while remotely managing all the systems and network for a corporate client. We were wrong. Jeff has been successfully managing corporate clients in this way for more than three years. Not one ball dropped. Not one extra gray hair earned.
Peace, folks. It's everything. Grab as much as you are able and no less.
6 comments:
Please share more about the phone that you have! I have Time Warner with an international plan. This is great! I don't need a cell. I haven't had a cell for a year or longer, but now that we are moving into an RV, I'm going to need some kind of phone. I actually NEED my phone to call my brother and my parents in Mexico. I can't use skype to call my parents because it becomes so frustrating when my parents don't now how to really use the thing and then we get disconnected.
@Mariza - We actually have the little slide Tracfone. We bought it somewhere that gave a lifetime minute doubling bonus so that anytime we buy minutes the number of minutes is always twice what we paid for.
The minutes can be purchased on their website or at most convenience, big-box department and grocery stores.
We haven't traveled extensively with this phone, but have not yet had any coverage problems with it.
There's no contract, so you can always ditch it if it isn't to your liking.
I'll look into it! Thanks!
Warmly,
Mariza
http://myownversion.com
I hear the song of King Louie in my head "I wanna be like you ooh ooh " - sooooooo inspiring! I'm so freaking sick of technology! Knowing I can go At My Leisure to any public library for computer use makes me happy. - I want connection with others but on a more real level than over the phone or on the Internet. It seems impossible. And yet, I know there are people doing it. *tears*
Thanks for being the spark you are, Cage Free Family!
With love and gratitude,
Cynthia in Texas
so glad to have found you. I just emailed that sign to my hubby at work. His work phone makes me crazy! We are in Maine and hoping to get back to VT some day and be a little less dependent on such things.
You are such an inspiration. Always.
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