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I enjoy not having to commute to work, just to sit in a noisy open plan office. At home I have peace and quiet and no distractions. My colleagues and I have dai

I enjoy not having to commute to work, just to sit in a noisy open plan office. At home I have peace and quiet and no distractions. My colleagues and I have daily video meeting, including time for social conversation. On the other hand, I am sorely missing the concerts, festivals and other social events I normally do in my free time. Everything has been cancelled until the 31st of August, which has completely wiped out the festival season. I fully expect this policy to be extended, so that only small events are allowed at first. Odds are the next festival I will be able to attend will be in November at the earliest. So it's 50/50 for me. I have gotten back into some old hobbies again, now that I have more free time, but I sorely miss social interaction, despite being rather introverted. Hopefully we will see some positive effects of this lockdown, such as challenging the idea that medical services should be profitable at all costs.

scarface74 7y ago
I hate my open office plan. It wouldn’t be bad if it didn’t include sales and customer support managers who are always on calls. I’m using this time to accelerate my push to work for either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure) in a mostly remote role (with lots of travel) in their consulting division. I would have been happy working as an FTE for a smaller local consulting company, but I suspect that most of the small consulting companies are going to go bust. I don’t see too many companies wanting to start new initiatives. Microsoft and Amazon have enough capital to both weather the recession that we are going to be in, enough large customers, and are always looking to keep their bench warm.
ghaff 7y ago
I work almost entirely remote anyway so that aspect isn't all that much different. The differences (in addition to general stress level) are: -- As you say, there aren't activities like theater to go to -- I normally am doing 1/3 travel, which is where a lot of my in-person interaction happens. (And essentially all of my professional F2F.) If events are canceled well into the fall, assuming that society is otherwise reasonably opened back up, I'll have to come up with some sort of Plan B that involves taking some significant time off.

scarface74 7y ago

I hate my open office plan. It wouldn’t be bad if it didn’t include sales and customer support managers who are always on calls. I’m using this time to accelerate my push to work for either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure) in a mostly remote role (with lots of travel) in their consulting division. I would have been happy working as an FTE for a smaller local consulting company, but I suspect that most of the small consulting companies are going to go bust. I don’t see too many companies wanting to start new initiatives. Microsoft and Amazon have enough capital to both weather the recession that we are going to be in, enough large customers, and are always looking to keep their bench warm.

ghaff 7y ago

I work almost entirely remote anyway so that aspect isn't all that much different. The differences (in addition to general stress level) are: -- As you say, there aren't activities like theater to go to -- I normally am doing 1/3 travel, which is where a lot of my in-person interaction happens. (And essentially all of my professional F2F.) If events are canceled well into the fall, assuming that society is otherwise reasonably opened back up, I'll have to come up with some sort of Plan B that involves taking some significant time off.