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Interesting. I work from home most often, and I find that not having to tack on a 2 1/2 hr daily car commute leaves me time for actually socializing IRL as oppo
by PeterStuer 9y ago
Interesting. I work from home most often, and I find that not having to tack on a 2 1/2 hr daily car commute leaves me time for actually socializing IRL as opposed to trying to cram that need into the office.
- BurritoAlPastor 9y agoYeah, but where do you find anybody to socialize with?
- klez 9y agoIf you only socialize with co-workers I'd say that is the bigger problem. All my interaction with people outside office hours are with people I don't work with. Should I consider myself privileged in this respect?
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoHow dare you have friends, you privileged person!
- amw 9y agoMeetups, dance classes, community outreach, church, RPG message boards (speaking theoretically, not personally for every single one of those).
- snow_mac 9y agoI have a collection of friends from different contexts. Some from past jobs, the gym and other friends. So WFH is great. If your only social group is work, then you should expand your circle, because you never know when the employer might fire you or lay you off. Which will make you very sad because suddenly you lose all your friends.
- PeterStuer 9y agoBesides 'normal' friends, sports club, meetups, local university public lectures, out and about cycling etc. I don't see the problem.
- ubermonkey 9y agoI've only had one job in my whole career where I met people I wanted to hang out with outside work. One of two of the guys I work with now might meet that bar if they weren't so far away. Where else do we find people? Well, we're all older, so we already had friends from other activities -- political involvement, volunteering for arts orgs, our cycling group, etc.
- el_benhameen 9y agoI think your schedule (“work from home most often”) is my ideal. Did you find it difficult to find a company that permits this? Did you have to negotiate for it, or is it pretty standard for everyone?
- snow_mac 9y agoWhen on linkedin, set it to looking for a job / open looking for new work to notify recruiters and add a message to the box saying you're looking for remote only. They will come in droves.
- PeterStuer 9y agoTo be fair I grew into it. Company moved several times as we grew, each time moving further away from where I lived. I had to work from home for a while when I broke my leg. It just sorta stuck from there. I mainly work with International teams, so F2F are mostly just a quarterly meeting affair. I'm well aware not being 'in the office' each day hurts my internal visibility, but it's a trade-off. Not going to waste <50% of my non-work, non-sleep, non-chore time sitting behind the wheel of a car in a traffic jam.