WFH.TEAM

Over the past few months, I’ve been mostly working on adding new features to https://wfh.team, and I plan to continue to do that for a while. But lately, I had been feeling like there is something missing from my project. Like I needed to breathe some life into my project.
I use a simple todo list to keep track of all the things I want to do in the future. Most of the tasks on my list are technical tasks, but there are also a few non-technical items on there. One thing that was on my list forever (or at least that’s how it felt like) and kept getting pushed down the list was:

• Give Back

This was basically on my vision board since I started my first side project. But every time I pictured it in my mind, I imagined myself running a big company that could afford to give back to the community in a big way. I always thought about this with the mindset of “Put on your oxygen mask before helping others”, like my business needs to be very stable with a growing MRR before I can even think about giving back in any way. In some cases that might be true. Like my small side project is definitely not at a point where I can afford to build a shelter for homeless people, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing I can do.
In fact, if I learned just one thing after doing many side projects over the past few years, it’s to take small steps when taking big steps feels too hard or even impossible. (See the title 👆🏼)

So I recently started revisiting the idea of giving back and thinking about how I can do it on a smaller scale. I wrote down my thought about what I was looking for:

1. No matter how small my contribution is, I wanted it to be made toward a big problem the world is facing right now, like hunger, homelessness, climate change, etc.

2. I wanted it to be somehow aligned/related to what I’m doing at WFH and what my mission is.

3. Something that is affordable for me at this stage
   After some digging around and looking into how other companies are doing a similar thing, I found the perfect match for what I was looking for:

• For every job you post we plant a tree 🌳

I couldn’t think of a better way to breathe life into my project by actually creating life!
This passed all my criteria. Climate change is a serious problem that is threatening the future of our planet 🌎 and our children, and one way to slow it down is by reforestation.
I think trying to make the world be a better place should be part of every company’s mission. There are countless articles around the web about the benefit of WFH in regard to climate change and how it can help it by

• Cutting Down on Greenhouse Gas Emission
• Decreasing the Construction of New Office Spaces
• Reducing Traffic-Related Deaths and Injuries

Another thing that makes this a perfect fit for my business and where I am right now is that planting a tree is actually very affordable. #teamtree started a campaign last year to raise $20 million to plant 20 million trees. And they made it in less than two months 🤯 What an incredible job! The good news is it’s not too late to donate. You can still go to their website and plant a tree for every $1 you donate.

Lastly, I’m very excited about what comes next and looking forward to making the planet a greener place. I think in a few years when I look back at what I have done, I would be proud of helping people find their dream job and live a happier life, but what would make me even more proud is that by doing so I made the planet a better place to live in.

If you are looking for a remote/work from home job, check out https://wfh.team or follow @wfh_team on Twitter. If you have any suggestions, questions or just want to say hi 👋 , feel free to message me on Twitter via @saeedezt

I just published my first story on Medium about what I did in the first 100 days after launching my startup to reach 15000+ users. You can read it here: 👉🏼https://medium.com/@saeedzti/from-0-to-15000-users-in-100-days-e0aad06f0a5d?sk=4e47afbee319ae6fb36aae18b10a9bc1