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Super curious to know if anyone out there is actually doing better than before, while under this virus situation? Personally, family, work-wise, hobbies? Do

Super curious to know if anyone out there is actually doing better than before, while under this virus situation? Personally, family, work-wise, hobbies? Do you know anyone who has really made the most (in an unexpectedly exceeding way) of this crisis? Personally all I can say positive is that I ride my bike far more than I ever have in my entire life.

Lexmazter 6y ago
To be honest, I love working from home that I never want to return to an office again. That means I want now to change my job. Remote FTW! 2020 was one of the best years of my life!
salmonlogs 6y ago
I used to work from home semi regularly and always enjoyed it, I found the transition to 100% WFH easy and net positive. Conveniently I had setup a new home office in late 2019. No need to waste time and effort commuting and I am more productive at home with less distractions. I also had more time to think and reflect and took the opportunity to change job/employer to a role I find more satisfying and meaningful. I find that I exercise more regularly as the logistics are easier - no need to try and get up at 6AM for a class, or forget my running shoes, or try to lock my bike up securely. Everything I need is here at home. With more time at home I've had the opportunity to improve my cooking which I've always wanted to do and the extra time with my partner has been great. Downtimes have been learning to live with less alone time; whilst my partner and I are comfortable and do things separately its not quite the same alone as say a full day WFH whilst they were out for dinner or in the office. Seeing my family in person less often is not ideal but I've compensated with video chats and in the process I now talk to my family more frequently and with more of them. I'd say that is a positive. I see people on sites like instagram that seem to need to demonstrate how they have used this situation to somehow radically change their lives with extreme diets or levels of fitness etc. which is unrealistic expectations. For me its been about gradually doing more of the good and less of the bad, and overall found a good balance.
nunez 6y ago
My base income went up by $14k and I made extra on the side. 2020 was a good year for us.
tomcam 6y ago
I’m doing substantially better than before. Now I have been working from home for decades so that hasn’t changed. I have an online business that went from slow decline to growing noticeably. But the truth is I have thrived for kind of a dumb reason. I have been paranoid all my life and by the time Covid hit I was ready for everything. Somehow the fact that my family was totally prepared lifted me out of a depression I have been in for a long time. To be clear, it is not that I am happy others are hurting. I think there was some kind of unconscious bit flipping where my slightly embarrassing habit of expecting the worst paid off. Also I sold my office and bought an insanely beautiful farm 5 minutes from my house so I am over the moon about that.

Lexmazter 6y ago

To be honest, I love working from home that I never want to return to an office again. That means I want now to change my job. Remote FTW! 2020 was one of the best years of my life!

salmonlogs 6y ago

I used to work from home semi regularly and always enjoyed it, I found the transition to 100% WFH easy and net positive. Conveniently I had setup a new home office in late 2019. No need to waste time and effort commuting and I am more productive at home with less distractions. I also had more time to think and reflect and took the opportunity to change job/employer to a role I find more satisfying and meaningful. I find that I exercise more regularly as the logistics are easier - no need to try and get up at 6AM for a class, or forget my running shoes, or try to lock my bike up securely. Everything I need is here at home. With more time at home I've had the opportunity to improve my cooking which I've always wanted to do and the extra time with my partner has been great. Downtimes have been learning to live with less alone time; whilst my partner and I are comfortable and do things separately its not quite the same alone as say a full day WFH whilst they were out for dinner or in the office. Seeing my family in person less often is not ideal but I've compensated with video chats and in the process I now talk to my family more frequently and with more of them. I'd say that is a positive. I see people on sites like instagram that seem to need to demonstrate how they have used this situation to somehow radically change their lives with extreme diets or levels of fitness etc. which is unrealistic expectations. For me its been about gradually doing more of the good and less of the bad, and overall found a good balance.

nunez 6y ago

My base income went up by $14k and I made extra on the side. 2020 was a good year for us.

tomcam 6y ago

I’m doing substantially better than before. Now I have been working from home for decades so that hasn’t changed. I have an online business that went from slow decline to growing noticeably. But the truth is I have thrived for kind of a dumb reason. I have been paranoid all my life and by the time Covid hit I was ready for everything. Somehow the fact that my family was totally prepared lifted me out of a depression I have been in for a long time. To be clear, it is not that I am happy others are hurting. I think there was some kind of unconscious bit flipping where my slightly embarrassing habit of expecting the worst paid off. Also I sold my office and bought an insanely beautiful farm 5 minutes from my house so I am over the moon about that.