Solution rather than carrying two phones?

[Anonymous]

I have been carrying two phones for years now (one for work, one personal) and I'd love to hear if anyone has any other solutions. I'm tired of carrying two!

Reasons why I carry two:

1. I didn't want to lose my personal cell number that I have had for years and given to countless people from family to colleagues to my kids' friends parents.

2. I don't want to give my work number to people like my kids' friends parents.

3. I wanted to keep my personal texts off my work phone but they are so benign I really don't care about that any more.

Anyone else in the same boat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been carrying two phones for years now (one for work, one personal) and I'd love to hear if anyone has any other solutions. I'm tired of carrying two!

Reasons why I carry two:

1. I didn't want to lose my personal cell number that I have had for years and given to countless people from family to colleagues to my kids' friends parents.

2. I don't want to give my work number to people like my kids' friends parents.

3. I wanted to keep my personal texts off my work phone but they are so benign I really don't care about that any more.

Anyone else in the same boat?

yes

I want to get rid of the work phone, electronic leash. not sure how to make that happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been carrying two phones for years now (one for work, one personal) and I'd love to hear if anyone has any other solutions. I'm tired of carrying two!

Reasons why I carry two:

1. I didn't want to lose my personal cell number that I have had for years and given to countless people from family to colleagues to my kids' friends parents.

2. I don't want to give my work number to people like my kids' friends parents.

3. I wanted to keep my personal texts off my work phone but they are so benign I really don't care about that any more.

Anyone else in the same boat?

yes

I want to get rid of the work phone, electronic leash. not sure how to make that happen.

Water works well...

[Anonymous]

I would prefer to have two if the alternative means merging my work like and home like more.

[Anonymous]

Get a Google Voice number that forwards to your phone. They also accept texts. This is what my spouse and I do for kid-related things. We give the school/other parents the Google number and not our personal cells.

[Anonymous]

Many years ago Verizon had the ability to put 2 numbers in one phone. I just had to switch the phone using a passcode. During the workday, I had it set to my work number and I would have my personal number forward calls. After work inwpuld switch to my personal number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a Google Voice number that forwards to your phone. They also accept texts. This is what my spouse and I do for kid-related things. We give the school/other parents the Google number and not our personal cells.

Interesting. How do you call back from your Google Voice number?

For example, school calls and leaves a message that my kid is sick. Can I call them back from the number they called?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been carrying two phones for years now (one for work, one personal) and I'd love to hear if anyone has any other solutions. I'm tired of carrying two!

Reasons why I carry two:

1. I didn't want to lose my personal cell number that I have had for years and given to countless people from family to colleagues to my kids' friends parents.

2. I don't want to give my work number to people like my kids' friends parents.

3. I wanted to keep my personal texts off my work phone but they are so benign I really don't care about that any more.

Anyone else in the same boat?

yes

I want to get rid of the work phone, electronic leash. not sure how to make that happen.

OP here. I work in PR so need to have my work number available at all times unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a Google Voice number that forwards to your phone. They also accept texts. This is what my spouse and I do for kid-related things. We give the school/other parents the Google number and not our personal cells.

Interesting. How do you call back from your Google Voice number?

For example, school calls and leaves a message that my kid is sick. Can I call them back from the number they called?

The Google Hangouts app lets you place voice or video calls like Skype or FaceTime. I'm not that particular about callback number, but, if I were, I'd just use the app.

[Anonymous]

Port your number to another service and have it work on the phone. We have magic jack and it can forward.

[Anonymous]

I've ported my personal number to Google Voice as well and that allows me to not only switch phones, and carriers, easily, but it also allows me to receive voicemail & texts via email while traveling internationally.

So if you do that and install the Google Voice app to your work phone, you can get ride of the personal phone. That said, i don't want to be tethered to my work email 24/7 so that's why I've kept two phones. I leave the work one home when going out on weekends.

[Anonymous]

Instead of getting a work phone, my office gave me the choice to use my personal phone for work and work pays $80 per month towards it. Works out well for me. I don't mind having work and personal merged. Makes things easy

[Anonymous]

I have the google voice app as well. That has my personal number. I don't know how it works, but if I dial from the google voice app, it shows on the other persons phone as coming from my personal number.

Same w texts - I text from google hangouts and it shows as coming from my personal phone number.

I think of it as a virtual phone on my work phone. I love it.

[Anonymous]

I finally got tired of carrying around 2 phones.

I have my work line forwarded to my personal cell. If I don't want someone to have my cell number I either send out a dial in or ask my asst to patch me through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would prefer to have two if the alternative means merging my work like and home like more.

+1