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I feel a touch of shame considering the tenor of this thread, but amazing. I just said to my wife I don’t want to go back. And I have a pretty spacious private

by mgr86 6y ago

I feel a touch of shame considering the tenor of this thread, but amazing. I just said to my wife I don’t want to go back. And I have a pretty spacious private office. We had our first child on Halloween and we both had only returned to work for a month before being forced to wfh. We both still are. It’s great watching my son every day grow. My wife’s job leaves her twiddling her thumbs a lot so she gets to spend a lot of time with our son. She does not understand the amount of focus necessary for my job as a SE. but we have never been happier and more sleep deprived. I could imagine if we were out of work or had older children I’d be singing a different tune.

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BlackjackCF 6y ago
I feel a little guilty too enjoying quarantine. My partner and I are both homebodies, and so we've enjoyed the extra time we have together. It's also been doing wonders for my stress since we recently relocated to another country (can't avoid packing and doing stuff to get set up for another country if you're stuck at home.) I definitely don't miss the traffic from my old commute at all. I can see how if you're single and unemployed how the quarantine would be terrible for your mental health.
- mgr86 6y ago
  We also bought a house last year. We have said how lucky we are. How we would be so miserable if we were still in the small apartment. We also had worked from Home one or two days a week prior. Having a designated work space definitely helped. We are also homebodies
- cmos 6y ago
  We have a 2 year old daughter and working from home is a bit noiser but so much nicer. It's not perfect, but neither was going to the office. We are doing shift work in my lab so I go in every now and then at night.
- tarsinge 6y ago
  Same here, I'm lucky to go through this as the most peaceful time in my life. I exercise and meditate a lot, and enjoy long afternoons in the garden, watching the small life going on and prospering, in the calm of now nearly empty roads. Could have been the opposite if I was single, unemployed, without a garden and without a dog I think.
- emerged 6y ago
  I was single and unemployed during quarantine, it was awesome. But then I got a job which is much better than my previous job and now things are even more awesome. But I've never had issues with handling stress, for me life is great even during great challenges. Big part of thriving right now is to resist going with the constant stream of panic-porn on social and mainstream media.
graton 6y ago
I'm with you. For us it has been pretty much fine. My spouse and I stay at home for the most part, except for the occasional shopping trip. Working from home. Luckily we haven't got on each others nerves much :)
dmuth 6y ago
> We had our first child on Halloween As someone who also has a birthday on Halloween, let me share something that I learned in childhood: Don't give your kid candy for birthday presents. They'll start hating it past age 10. Trust me. Best of luck to you and your family.
- becausecombi 6y ago
  They'll start hating getting candy as a gift, or hating candy? If it's the latter, then maybe that is the right gift to give!
bargl 6y ago
I can say for myself (as someone who has struggled with this) I don't want you to feel shame. Enjoy it. Everyone, EVERYONE gets good times in life and bad times. You don't need guilt while you're enjoying an up, and a infant is a great thing to enjoy. Just pay it forward and inject that positive energy back into the world. I would hope everyone got a quarantine they enjoyed and not the other way around. I'd say that's my metric for where I want society to go. EDIT: No not that everyone would be in a quarantine but that everyone would have ideal working conditions and happiness.
bonniemuffin 6y ago
I'm also WFH with an infant. We have 2 very full jobs, but we have a nanny who comes to our house to help out. It's hard to balance everything, but overall I'm really grateful I get to spend a lot of extra time with my baby during her first year of life. I know I'd be really sad to miss so much time with her if I was dropping her off at daycare every morning, but instead I get to take breaks during the day to spend time with her.

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BlackjackCF 6y ago

I feel a little guilty too enjoying quarantine. My partner and I are both homebodies, and so we've enjoyed the extra time we have together. It's also been doing wonders for my stress since we recently relocated to another country (can't avoid packing and doing stuff to get set up for another country if you're stuck at home.) I definitely don't miss the traffic from my old commute at all. I can see how if you're single and unemployed how the quarantine would be terrible for your mental health.

mgr86 6y ago
We also bought a house last year. We have said how lucky we are. How we would be so miserable if we were still in the small apartment. We also had worked from Home one or two days a week prior. Having a designated work space definitely helped. We are also homebodies
cmos 6y ago
We have a 2 year old daughter and working from home is a bit noiser but so much nicer. It's not perfect, but neither was going to the office. We are doing shift work in my lab so I go in every now and then at night.
tarsinge 6y ago
Same here, I'm lucky to go through this as the most peaceful time in my life. I exercise and meditate a lot, and enjoy long afternoons in the garden, watching the small life going on and prospering, in the calm of now nearly empty roads. Could have been the opposite if I was single, unemployed, without a garden and without a dog I think.
emerged 6y ago
I was single and unemployed during quarantine, it was awesome. But then I got a job which is much better than my previous job and now things are even more awesome. But I've never had issues with handling stress, for me life is great even during great challenges. Big part of thriving right now is to resist going with the constant stream of panic-porn on social and mainstream media.

graton 6y ago

I'm with you. For us it has been pretty much fine. My spouse and I stay at home for the most part, except for the occasional shopping trip. Working from home. Luckily we haven't got on each others nerves much :)

dmuth 6y ago

> We had our first child on Halloween As someone who also has a birthday on Halloween, let me share something that I learned in childhood: Don't give your kid candy for birthday presents. They'll start hating it past age 10. Trust me. Best of luck to you and your family.

becausecombi 6y ago
They'll start hating getting candy as a gift, or hating candy? If it's the latter, then maybe that is the right gift to give!

bargl 6y ago

I can say for myself (as someone who has struggled with this) I don't want you to feel shame. Enjoy it. Everyone, EVERYONE gets good times in life and bad times. You don't need guilt while you're enjoying an up, and a infant is a great thing to enjoy. Just pay it forward and inject that positive energy back into the world. I would hope everyone got a quarantine they enjoyed and not the other way around. I'd say that's my metric for where I want society to go. EDIT: No not that everyone would be in a quarantine but that everyone would have ideal working conditions and happiness.

bonniemuffin 6y ago

I'm also WFH with an infant. We have 2 very full jobs, but we have a nanny who comes to our house to help out. It's hard to balance everything, but overall I'm really grateful I get to spend a lot of extra time with my baby during her first year of life. I know I'd be really sad to miss so much time with her if I was dropping her off at daycare every morning, but instead I get to take breaks during the day to spend time with her.