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2.5 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.
During the pandemic, I started a new job at a company that refurbishes and sells second hand cars online. I spent the first 4 months doing the new normal, working from home. I thought everything was ticking along fine, but I accepted an opportunity to go to one of our refurbishment sites to see things actually happening and do a bit of strategic thinking with two colleagues in the 3rd-dimension.
It became the highlight of my year to date. I had more impact, influence, experienced clarity and had useful collaboration on that day than I have done in a long while. It was like night and day. I never thought I'd say it, but I can't wait to get back to working face-to-face.
Acknowledging 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…
But for me this is only about inner peace, not convincing others to feel sorry for me. I've found Stoicism which has greatly improved my life. Even though I have a partner who loves me, I understand that one should never rely on another for happiness. I've begun to do all the things I love doing again. Computers, electronics, programming, cycling. All these things that stopped during my recovery while I hopelessly sought someone to fill a void they couldn't possibly fill.
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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...
I'm currently experiencing the same calm as when I lived a 4-minute tram ride from work. (My current job is over an hour away) The soul killing of commuting is underrated. Just the sheer amount of time lost in your day is huge and that loss builds up over time. And that's not even counting increased health problems, sleeping less (well), increased stress from anxiety or just basic public transport bullshit. I used to…
When I was commuting in a car, the exact same path would take me 45m to an hour at peak time, and 15m off-peak. Just by pushing forward the starting time by about an hour, I saved loads of time and aggravation. This applies to public-transport commuters too: the experience of squeezing into an overcrowded carriage where you could die standing vs sitting comfortably and reading a book in a mid-morning train, is night and day.
Employers should just agree that the actual hours where absolute overlap is required, are about 5-6 per day. Leave people free to attach the remaining 2-3 at whichever end they prefer, or even do them from home (so you commute calmly and then just end the day from home). It won’t solve everything (schools remain obtuse bottlenecks with their inflexible schedules) but it would go a long way towards removing stress from commuting.
Buying a pen plotter last summer was one of the best decision for a while. As I start my journey into programming with generative art, using macromedia director and processing, I always wanted to be able to create my on physical prints. So for the last months I got back to have fun writing code in my spare time. Some examples: https://twitter.com/eskimobloood/status/1366300689652187140 https://twitter.com/eskimoblooo…
Could you share some resources on how to get into this?
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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.
Remote working allowed me to spend time with him in his early month. And this is priceless.
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> I stopped contacting most of my friends over 9 months ago and have not heard back from most for 6 months to never Isn't it possible some of them are thinking the same in reverse, avoiding contact with you because you haven't contacted them in 9 months? Friendships often come out of being stuck together in some way, either work or school or sport or locality or social routine, and they can be hard to maintain when t…
Depends. Sometimes you realize that you’ve always been the one initializing the interactions and when you stop nothing happens anymore. That might be a sign it’s a lopsided relationship.