In this episode, Tasia discusses the unique demands and rewards of remote work, emphasizing the importance of being genuinely committed to your tasks and company culture. We dive into the secrets behind MuseumHack’s success and how they manage to keep their remote team engaged and productive. With her infectious passion and energy, Tasia provides actionable insights for tech and digital marketing professionals looking to excel in their remote careers. Don’t miss this chance to get inspired and learn from one of the leading voices in the remote workspace!
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Speaker 1
0:00
believe, like remote cultures, you get pushed so much more for results than just being a warm body there. It's more important, like what you're doing, uh, compared to just being present. So an office job, all right, you could go in there for eight hours, you could like sit back, you could chill, you could drink your coffee, you can take whatever breaks, um, and it's okay I'm stereotyping some office jobs but so you could just hang out and it wouldn't matter in a remote world If you're just hanging out and you're on the clock, like, that feels a lot different than just like BS in when you're sitting around talking with your coworkers but you're not working. So I think it helps us set up those clear boundaries of like. When you're on, you are super productive, get your stuff done and then get off, so you can also enjoy life, because that's part of the joy of being remote is you can enjoy life and you can be anywhere you want in the world and you can take breaks anytime.
Speaker 2
0:51
You can walk outside or do whatever. Hello, it's alex from remote work life here. I hope you're doing well. Thank you for joining the the podcast, and if you've not listened to a podcast before, then you perhaps don't know that we're a community and a podcast where tech and digital marketing professionals from around the world with a shared interest in remote work come to learn how to grow a remote career or business, and what I'll be doing is I'll be interviewing CEOs, leaders, entrepreneurs in the remote workspace just to share with you their ideas, their experiences and how they've built their businesses and how they've built their careers, so that you can understand the benefits yourself of having a remote work life and build your own remote work life. I'll be your host, alex Wilson-Campbell along the way.
Speaker 2
1:40
Just listened to is a piece from an interview that I did with the CEO of MuseumHack, tasia Dusky. Tasia's got a great story because she transferred from a very corporate, laid out, I suppose, type of scenario to a startup a very fast-paced, fluid scenario within a startup called MuseumHack, and, in fact, her rise to the I suppose, the status of CEO has been a phenomenal rise and she's building a successful business as she goes along, and Museum Hack. Where you'll find Museum Hack? At museumhackcom, and of course I'll also leave the details in the show notes. Museum Hack do awesome museum tours and Museum Hack leads renegade small group tours for people who think they don't like museums. So for me, if you like museums, then check out MuseumHack, and if you're also thinking about, you know, getting into remote work, check out MuseumHack as well. But they have a certain type of personality, a certain type of culture that may suit you, may not, and that's, I guess, the same for any business out there. But I love what Tasia is building, I love what she's doing with Museum Hack, I love the, the passion she shows for what she does, the energy which is really, I suppose, instrumental in taking Museum Hack to where it is now.
Speaker 2
3:17
And what she was saying in that segment is that if you're working remotely, you have to be really vested in what you're doing, you have to be organized, you have to be productive, you have to, I guess, be very disciplined in many ways, because there's nobody there to tell you what to do. If you're sitting around watching the clock, then it's going to be quite a boring and quite monotonous day for you, and it's obviously. If you're in that situation, then it's not going to suit you. So those outcomes that she described are going to be so important when it comes to reporting back to your team. And if you're the kind of person who needs people around you to motivate you and inspire you, then remote work is not going to be for you. And she also talks about culture as well. You have to be really vested in the culture.
Speaker 2
4:10
You have to be an active participant in the culture of remote business, and I think that's something as well that nick francis of help scout shared with me as well. You have to be really in there. You have to get involved with what they're doing, because, after all, the remote, the remote culture, is something that is driven by the people, whereas, you know, co-located in a co-located scenario, you can you know I'm not saying that people within co-located scenarios do this but you can drift if you want. You can just sit there, not necessarily be actively, an active participant in in the culture and what they're doing. You can just drift along, but you'll get found out if you do that in a remote business, and I think that's what, um, what tasey was alluding to. So make sure you choose the right, you know a remote business, business that is right for you.
Speaker 2
5:01
Don't just go and apply for any remote role because you want a remote job. That will not give you the success you want. I guess is what I'm trying to say when it comes to your application. Remote work or wanting to work remotely is not a reason for applying for jobs that are remote. You've got to really find a company that's you, that you have some sort of connection with. You have to find a company that you have some sort of um belief in, because if you don't, then you'll quickly find that it becomes a bit of a drag and it becomes you. You'll suffer that. I guess you may suffer imposter syndrome because you feel as though you just don't quite fit, I guess, in the way that you perhaps imagine that you would.
Speaker 2
5:52
So that's my thought for this day, or for today, should I say I'd love to hear your, your views on that. Get in touch, because I've left my my details, as ever, in the show notes, you can. You can check out my LinkedIn in the show notes. You can join the group if you like. We have a group on Facebook where we're approaching now a thousand members in the group. So come and join in, leave your questions there, ask your questions, make friends, make connections and just come and say hello, I guess. And if you're on LinkedIn, connect with me by all means. And if you're on LinkedIn, connect with me by all means, and if you have any questions, let me know and I'll catch you in the next episode.
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