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My experience with wfh: I work in one of the audit companies' advisory arms (and I have only been in the workforce for around a year now), and for me WFH was a
by elSidCampeador 6y ago
My experience with wfh: I work in one of the audit companies' advisory arms (and I have only been in the workforce for around a year now), and for me WFH was a dream benefit that was only available to those in tech.
At first (i.e., around the first 2-3 weeks), I loved WFH - because I was very motivated to finish my work ASAP and spend time playing the guitar, or writing, or doing whatever the hell I wanted to do. And because the country wasn't in lockdown, I met friends for lunch/dinner every other day, so I was having fun.
The next 2-3 weeks, I began to hate it, because I hated not meeting people so much (because by this time the country had gone into lockdown), and I felt like shit tbh.
After that, I made it a rule to video call one of my friends/colleagues every day, which improved my life tremendously. Should have thought of this earlier, smh.
Around the same time, I fell into a bad habit. I started to think that I'm not really going anywhere, so why work so much? As a result, my work started to drag on after office hours, and I started to feel more tired. I had to actively tell myself that my work day ended at such-and-such a time, so that I wouldn't drag my my work to after office hours.
Once this entire period of around 2 months passed, I realised that I prefer WFH, and started to dread the day we'd be called back in to work, because of the following reasons:
1. I save an hour of travel time each day, so instead of waking up at 7 to be able to reach office at 9, I now wake up at 845.
2. I'm quite motivated to finish work early and then do whatever I want.
3. Because I'm so new to work, I don't really need to go around meeting people - hence there is no reason for me to be anywhere near office.