My blood pressure dropped 40 points when I left my military job. People talk about serious F U money. After you offload stress like that it come very clear that serious F U money is a much lower amount than you previously considered.
Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
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Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#122Acknowledging the damage inflicted by an abusive past partner. I'm able to say "this is something that happened to me" and address it as such -- It isn't a thing I push to the back of my brain to deal with later, or an isolating trauma I'm afraid of losing friends over, or an overshadowing fixation I'm worried has changed me. It's in the front row now, being processed piece by piece. Over the past year I've been init…
Congratulations on the breakthrough!
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#123Working from home. I realised being in an office - especially an open-plan office - was setting off my social anxiety all the time. Working in a place where I could choose to engage with people instead of having it forced upon me made it so much easier to work. I became a lot more productive and started enjoying what I did, even picking up more side projects and learning actively. It's a shame it's coming to an end,…
Are you not in IT? Remote is literally permanent now
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#1242.5 day work week. Peak performance on those days at a decent daily rate, then I get to fuck around on whatever for the rest of the week. Wednesdays are my fridays.
How'd you convince someone to let you?
As a consultant, you can choose the days that are open for booking, a lot of companies don't need full time help or can't afford it, and I'm highly productive when I don't hate a project. So it works out.
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#125Working from home. I realised being in an office - especially an open-plan office - was setting off my social anxiety all the time. Working in a place where I could choose to engage with people instead of having it forced upon me made it so much easier to work. I became a lot more productive and started enjoying what I did, even picking up more side projects and learning actively. It's a shame it's coming to an end,…
Agreed. For me personally, commuting is a big factor - I love not doing it...
Unfortunately, permanent WFH will probably not work for me for other reasons, in particular I think that the face to face interaction with coworkers cannot be replaced...
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#126Listening to Sarah Coponat play piano on Twitch. Her live, epic, flowing improvisation is the perfect companion to the workday. https://www.twitch.tv/sarahcoponat
Good to see Sarah mentioned here, it's the same for me. Her music is the one constantly good thing that I'm always looking forward to in the last year, highly recommended.
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#127Moving from a small flat to a house with garden in the suburbs. Lockdown with children in a flat is not good.
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#128I discovered cycling!
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#1292.5 day work week. Peak performance on those days at a decent daily rate, then I get to fuck around on whatever for the rest of the week. Wednesdays are my fridays.
Sounds like a dream. I'd love to work in short bursts of highly productive work instead of full work weeks of mostly lingering around and wasted time to fill the hours. I wonder though, how does it work out financially?
Re: Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
#130Working from home. I realised being in an office - especially an open-plan office - was setting off my social anxiety all the time. Working in a place where I could choose to engage with people instead of having it forced upon me made it so much easier to work. I became a lot more productive and started enjoying what I did, even picking up more side projects and learning actively. It's a shame it's coming to an end,…
Are you not in IT? Remote is literally permanent now
Not everywhere. Most companies here in India aren't looking to stay remote long term if they weren't remote friendly before.