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I'm single, and transition to WFH has made a great improvement to my social health. Sure, all people need social interactions. But these interactions don't nee
by golergka 6y ago
I'm single, and transition to WFH has made a great improvement to my social health.
Sure, all people need social interactions. But these interactions don't need to be defined by work. I work in caffe 10 meters from my apartment. Sit with laptop in the park. Meet with friends. I don't drive, don't use public transport, but walk an awful lot.
And thanks with great, mostly asynchronous communication at my workplace, I sleep as much as I want to, and work exactly when I feel like it, and never ever hear or see my colleagues — only text, mostly comments as opposed to instance messaging. Sometimes I just slack off for three days straight. Sometimes I go into work binge for a non-interrupted 20 hour refactoring session. Not even because there's some deadline, feeling of responsibility or any other kind of negative motivation like that — just because I enjoy it and don't want to stop!
I feel like I've been on vacation for the last three months, and yet repository stats show me that I'm more productive as I've ever been.
Oh, and the best thing about all of that? I live in a country with much lower cost of living than US, but thanks to headlines like this, I feel that I'll soon be competing for exactly the same jobs and salaries that SF engineers.
- Smithalicious 6y agoThis describes my feelings entirely!