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I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home, and I'm having mixed feelings about it. As usual, there are pros and cons to everything. Pros: - Able to be at
by Accacin 7y ago
I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home, and I'm having mixed feelings about it. As usual, there are pros and cons to everything.
Pros:
- Able to be at home all day, feel I have more flexibility.
Cons:
- I miss cycling to work.
- I miss getting out the house
- I miss chatting to colleagues
- I miss lots of indirect help from other developers.
I might feel differently if I had to drive to work, as I hated that. Now though, my commute is a 15 minute cycle down a clean, wide, and seperated cycle path which I love (especially in the sun!).
- exdsq 7y agoMy job has been remote since last summer. I completely understand your cons - things which help are going out for walks or in your case cycling (I normally take a long walk to a coffee shop in the morning) and organising things to do in the evening such as meetups, dinner, a pint, etc. You have to be more active but it's nice when your social life is both good and unrelated to your job!
- overcast 7y agoWhat's stopping you from getting out of the house? Cycle before work, and after work.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoA justification.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoRight now? The government. Non-essential travel and outdoor activities are banned. If I lived in a rural area I'd probably be outside working on a new deck or garden, but I live in a city and I'm stuck in an apartment.
- linsomniac 7y agoToday I set up a "lunch chat" in Jitsi and invited my coworkers during our standup. We ended up having a great discussion, and an unintended benefit is that our user advocate from our parent company that is only in our office once a week was able to join as well.