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5 years remote. Personal bottom line: -- negative: lost interest in having friends (and generally the patience needed to talk to people), no social life, no ca
by minipci1321 10y ago
5 years remote. Personal bottom line:
-- negative: lost interest in having friends (and generally the patience needed to talk to people), no social life, no career, work-life balance completely broken
-- positive: sleeping 8 hours a night! (and more if I need to), making walks in the park/training at noon, never really sick, comfortable home office, can be efficient again (only my job doesn't require that). Started having ideas again and thinking about side projects.
Before going remote, during 15 years I was commuting 2+ hours in the morning (so 2 hours again in the evening), sleeping 4 hours a night by the end of the week, dozing off the entire weekend and generally feeling extremely exhausted, mentally and physically, easily catching flu etc.
Would I move back to office employment? I really hope I won't have to.
- ivrrimum 10y agono career? Then what do you do? Start freelancing, you will be A LOT more happy, motivated, etc.
- socialist_coder 10y agoHmm, I also have an extreme lack of patience for other adults (I say adults because I have plenty of patience for my kids). I've been working remotely for 4 years now, I wonder if that is why? I don't think I used to be so impatient with other people. Interesting...