Feels kind of sad. I wouldn't call myself an extrovert, but I did feel like one of the few people kinda hopeful about RTO back in my days. I got a total of 3 mo

Feels kind of sad. I wouldn't call myself an extrovert, but I did feel like one of the few people kinda hopeful about RTO back in my days. I got a total of 3 months of office time in my 2nd job before COVID locked everything down and I immediately missed that watercooler talk, hearing these renowned experts just casually talking about some of the crazy problem they did or are encountering and blooming seeds of new initiatives. I knew I wasn't going to get anything like that from an online Slack group, though there were efforts for it. Time comes to potentially open the office back up, and I hear opines are mostly "nah, I don't ever want to go back into an office again". And I get it. Many of them were in industry for decades and have families at home they tend to. For that kind of environment, being able to WFH puts them closer to the people they truly care about. But for a single late 20's dude still adjusting to post-college life in a new town, it felt isolating even when offices technically opened up (on a true hybrid basis. 0 days? 5 days? all fine). Even meetups post COVID just don't really feel the same. less frequent and a lot less people drifting in. I'm fine holing up in my place for days at a time, but I want some socialization with like minds.