Yeah. I am extremely confused that you seem to be the only comment on this entire thread who isn't focused on commuting tradeoffs or work/life balance due to co

Yeah. I am extremely confused that you seem to be the only comment on this entire thread who isn't focused on commuting tradeoffs or work/life balance due to commingled environments, as if this is "life a small usual, except working from home"... I have always worked from home (and think people who go to an office are crazy), and my job is thereby identical to what it was before COVID-19... and yet, I am working much longer hours because I have absolutely nothing else to do :/. I used to go out to eat a lot, hang out with friends, go to movies and concerts and events, I live next to a university where I could drop in on classes and talk to professors, I used to go to a lot of conferences (which you could argue was "for work", but frankly we all know a lot of the time spent at them isn't just a vacation you can justify as being sort of related to your job; do I really need to go to CES every year? no)... hell: I used to spend a weirdly large amount of time just grocery shopping, as I enjoyed finding new foods and it was an activity around people I didn't have to interact with (as we are all doing stuff), but since I live in a small-ish town (where I am even in local politics, which helps make it smaller for me) I would often run into people I know and exchange at least a few pleasantries; but now we all treat grocery shopping as something to do seldom, in bulk: it is all very transactional and you can't wander the isles for an hour, or get into conversations with people. So like, now, I am spending more time on random hobbies, but those are still a bit lonely :/. I have gained a bunch of weight, in no small part because I have gotten better at cooking... just for me :(. I swear I am mostly an introvert, but I know I have an extroverted streak (it is why I am able to be a politician and a public speaker despite kind of hating other people ;P) and I normally have ways to burn that off but I just don't have that at all anymore. I have watched an infinite number of movies and TV shows (I now have a "quota" to get through three movies a day ;P...), as my brain considers the people on the screen vaguely similar to being around other humans (this has even caused me to start following people I don't know on social media--like Instagram and TikTok--as it causes the same trick), but that only uses part of my brain most of the time (most movies aren't good) and so I still want to do something while watching them (which also helps my brain not realize they aren't made from real people). You know what working has? Coordination with other people on what feels like a shared sense of purpose. I need that right now :(.