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Re: Ask HN: How do you maintain a satisfying lifestyle when working remotely?

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Post by aristofun » Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

Find your love, make a family, kids etc.

Or at least try some really exciting hobbies that require interactions with people (how hard is it to sing up to nearest alpinists club or mma gym if you can say at least few words out loud?)

This will take your attention away from this meaningless self overthinking about stuff that doesn’t really exist (except in your head).

Been there.

Re: Ask HN: How do you maintain a satisfying lifestyle when working remotely?

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Post by giorgioz » Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 2:36 PM UTC

I've been working remotely 9 out of 10 of my working years. I understand the isolation. In my case I tried to balance it by having a very active social life with friends. Attending meetups from meetup.com and actively writing friends working in similar fields to meet for lunch once a week to try to get some missed colleguage-2-colleague interaction. Some other friends also tried joining a coworking space.

Re: Ask HN: How do you maintain a satisfying lifestyle when working remotely?

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Post by matt_the_bass » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 1:14 AM UTC

ffwacom wrote: post #5

I’ve struggled with this and my solution was to quit and change career to be a tradesman, starting school again at the end of the month. A novel was written about this from the relationship side in the 90’s by a webdev: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, I haven’t read it but it’s in the mail.

“Michel Houellebecq”. I haven’t heard that name in a long time. Are you French? About 23 years ago I was discussing one of his books in an web forum for a French lit class I took. The professor knew him and Michel participated in the discussion. It was pretty cool!