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> Add on no third place to go to and how work is increasingly ceasing to be a second place with wfh and you just have a loneliness sandwich The office never wa
by oooyay 3y ago
> Add on no third place to go to and how work is increasingly ceasing to be a second place with wfh and you just have a loneliness sandwich
The office never was my "second place" as a junior; to me this concept is very much a myth. I spent most of my time in my cubicle or in a meeting room and very little time with people my age. Most of my work got done when I was home and undistracted. I stayed up late coding and was perpetually trying to catch up on sleep. When my dog was in the process of slowly dying I worried every day that I'd come home to her corpse and that she'd die alone. I got lucky she died on a Saturday. Now that I work from home I spend a lot more time with people my age and those problems I faced that seemed to be part of every day life that I just needed to "deal with" as consequences to corporate life have evaporated out of thin air.