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As someone 90 days into a full remote from home job, I would highly recommend you meditate on whether you are the sort of person that actually wants to exist in
by digitalsushi 7y ago
As someone 90 days into a full remote from home job, I would highly recommend you meditate on whether you are the sort of person that actually wants to exist in what could effectively be a prison in the shape of your home. (Or wherever you decide to work from.)
I have seriously underestimated how important human contact is, even if just with effective strangers.
If it's not compatible with you, you will start a countdown clock to ??? once you start on this journey.
Working inside an office is apparently like having guard rails for an invisible road that many people do not require, but people like me might not thrive without.
I'm now faced with the awkward fork in the road of going back to my old job, which would (probably? hopefully? gladly?) take me back, or forcing some evolution to make myself compatible with this prison I fought so hard to procure.
- ktm5j 7y agoThis sort of thing varies from person to person. For example, my wife and I are both very introverted and don't really need the human contact part. My wife does work from home full time and loves it. I can do almost 100% of my job remotely and so I work from home one day a week. I could do more work from home, but my coworkers can't do their jobs remotely so I don't want it to be unfair for them. Personally I would recommend against going back to your old job, even if they welcome you back. That won't look good on a resume. Give yourself some time, let your superiors know that this is an adjustment for you and they should be understanding.
- Trias11 7y agoDisagree with "That won't look good on a resume". Quite an opposite. Lots of good reasons why professional could get back to previous place: more interesting project, being valued, maintained good relationshiops, etc...