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What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by huimang »

getYeGone wrote: post #149

I graduated in 2020 into what was supposed to be a “regular” in-person job, that was turned into a fully remote job due to Covid. I ended up hating it there, and since have found a new primarily-remote job that I love. My life feels hopeless. I wake up, go to the gym, and then work from 9–8. I work so much because I have nothing better to do. Then I watch a movie or some garbage on YouTube and go to bed. I have no fr…

Find hobbies / meetup groups. If you want to improve your situation you need to actively work on it. It doesn't magically fall into your lap.

Also, stop working 9-8. Obviously it's more difficult to find the energy to do things when you're tired from working 11 hours per day.

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Post by housedrafta »

fortuna86 wrote: post #118
gernb wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is good advice. Sadly in some places it's hard to have dog. Example, went to an apartment site, ~2000 listings available. Checked "allows dog", dropped to ~280

Don't tell your landlord. If your dog is registered as service you don't have to declare it.

Don't actually do this.

Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by [deleted] »

tayo42 wrote: post #62

These all sound like good problems to have. Seems like the first time the op has a chance to figure them self out and learn a bit about who they really are without work forcing it self to be their identify. Probably jarring because our whole lives are so structured, from school, to college to our job on schedule. It's odd to break free mostly. Embrace it, keep dabbling and trying and thinking. The rest will come.

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Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by tayo42 »

priconceptions wrote: post #67
tayo42 wrote: post #62

These all sound like good problems to have. Seems like the first time the op has a chance to figure them self out and learn a bit about who they really are without work forcing it self to be their identify. Probably jarring because our whole lives are so structured, from school, to college to our job on schedule. It's odd to break free mostly. Embrace it, keep dabbling and trying and thinking. The rest will come.

Thank you for this comment. You’re right. I had an extremely busy job before this one and now is the first time I have this much free time. Your comment makes me feel better! Thanks again!

Glad it helped :) Good luck with your new found free time

Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by benjaminwootton »

unethical_ban wrote: post #85

Thank you for speaking up for those of us who think WFH is overrated. This is the first time perhaps in my life where I have been beaten over the head by the in-group that I am in the out-group. I'm a mostly straight, white man who never had to worry about being targeted due to who I am, and who never had to worry about food or housing. I'm smart and never had to work to get into college or get a good job. Reading HN…

I think online and technical communities veer towards being introverted. A lot of people I know in finance or sales would have gone nuts with the amount of WFH tech people are still doing.

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Post by jcims »

philsnow wrote: post #129
jcims wrote: post #89

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I just signed a lease on an apartment to do something very similar. House out in the country, apartment in a very walkable town just outside a major metro area. The motivation was to help a family member in that town but I’m stoked at the prospect of having both. It’s definitely a bit of an indulgence but i could downsize both once my youngest is on her own.

If you care to use an established term for it, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre

Oh nice!! Thank you!

Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by ipiz0618 »

How's office work not feeling like the same every day? I think it's worse, cause you see the same people, same expressionless faces (mine included) every day, unless you go out occasionally with friends.

And it definitely doesn't feel like retirement...You still work every day, even more because people expect you to be around at any moment. This is bad but easily fixable with just ignoring messages at night. In office, if you're there people could just approach you even when you're leaving.

Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by ibeckermayer »

getYeGone wrote: post #149

I graduated in 2020 into what was supposed to be a “regular” in-person job, that was turned into a fully remote job due to Covid. I ended up hating it there, and since have found a new primarily-remote job that I love. My life feels hopeless. I wake up, go to the gym, and then work from 9–8. I work so much because I have nothing better to do. Then I watch a movie or some garbage on YouTube and go to bed. I have no fr…

I’m around your age, similar interests (software and exercise), my job’s fully remote and I like going places and meeting new people. Feel free to hit me up isaiah@becker-mayer.com

Re: What I don’t like about working at a remote job

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Post by horns4lyfe »

unethical_ban wrote: post #85

Thank you for speaking up for those of us who think WFH is overrated. This is the first time perhaps in my life where I have been beaten over the head by the in-group that I am in the out-group. I'm a mostly straight, white man who never had to worry about being targeted due to who I am, and who never had to worry about food or housing. I'm smart and never had to work to get into college or get a good job. Reading HN…

No one is brow beating people who want to work in an office, as long as you respect that lots of people don’t want to. If you want to, great; every job I’ve talked to a recruiter about in the past two years has been fully remote if you want it to be, or in office if you want. If actually letting people decide how they want to work is so oppressive to you then sorry; otherwise you’re just playing into middle manager power trips.
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