The loneliness is real. I've been combatting the loneliness a few ways. I think it's important that if you are working remote, you don't have 8 hours of "butt i

The loneliness is real. I've been combatting the loneliness a few ways. I think it's important that if you are working remote, you don't have 8 hours of "butt in seat" time. If the expectations are that you need a butt in a seat for 8 hour stretches, then you probably work for a company that has a bad remote work culture. 1. make lunch plans with friends and peers. 2. go to networking meetups 3. personal development unrelated to work. take a class. start a garden, build something at home. Go to the park. Take extra walks. go to the grocery store. Do things that are really annoying to do outside of normal work hours. I don't think I'm a cliche software dev. I don't like sitting in my cave all day. I don't play video games. I don't watch much TV. It's really important for me to get human interaction beyond the workplace. I find that as a possible introverted extrovert, working in an office sapped my social energies and I wasn't able to socialize outside of work. As a remote worker, all of my socialization is on my terms. I get to devote my energy into people that I desire to be around, while before my energy was getting drained by small track from folks, while nice people, were not people I wanted to spend my limited energy on.