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Very interested to hear of ways to track your spending without providing access to a 3rd party service, but that are also more sophisticated than manually typing it in excel.

My department is transitioning to be full remote and before I dig into it with my boss I wanted to know what potential problems I might face with my company when asking them to let me work for a month+ at a time from another country.

I plan on maintaining normal hours and my mailing address won't change. My bigger concern is if there are legal issues. My company deals with sensitive data and has some compliance procedures that I need to investigate separately.

Interested to hear stories from software engineers who changed profession and then went back to software engineering.

-Why did you leave and return? -Was it difficult to return? -What perceptions did companies have?

What is the current career value of being, at least, bilingual in the states for tech companies. Is there any data/evidence to suggest for certain positions it is/is not worth learning another language? If it is beneficial, are there specific languages that rank higher than the rest? Are they associated with specific positions?

tl;dr - Will knowing a language other than English help me find a tech job?

Aside: I believe everyone should know, at the minimum, two languages.

I've worked in software development for a few years now and want to start my own business. I have an idea, a website/service, that I am building offline currently. When I put it under a domain I would like to have all the business parts figured out. Does that even matter?

What advice can you give me from you own experience and knowledge on how to smoothly create a small business for an online company, that for the foreseeable future will have 1 employee.

I've heard that I should start an LLC for myself and use that to create the online business.

I don't expect to make any money in 2017 - but it's always a possibility.

Thanks!

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