This puts into stark clarity why I've been feeling off for a while in my career. I've been working remotely for years, starting part time and now full time. I used to have team meetings where we'd share some personal venting and stories, but those have gone away. I also used to have an affordable co-working space where at least all is remote people from different companies could commiserate together.
Now I'm in a different state, 2000 miles away from even that community. There are a couple local co-working spaces but they're well outside our family budget while my wife is in grad school.
Thanks for helping guys like me feel seen and heard, and providing some food for thought on what to do about this.
I have worked remote for over a decade and learned early on that I needed to reach out to colleagues for one-on-one chats to decompress about our work. Relying on my husband to “get it” was not helpful—or fair to him. There’s nothing like talking to people who have an intimate understanding of your work.
This puts into stark clarity why I've been feeling off for a while in my career. I've been working remotely for years, starting part time and now full time. I used to have team meetings where we'd share some personal venting and stories, but those have gone away. I also used to have an affordable co-working space where at least all is remote people from different companies could commiserate together.
Now I'm in a different state, 2000 miles away from even that community. There are a couple local co-working spaces but they're well outside our family budget while my wife is in grad school.
Thanks for helping guys like me feel seen and heard, and providing some food for thought on what to do about this.
So helpful, as usual.
I have worked remote for over a decade and learned early on that I needed to reach out to colleagues for one-on-one chats to decompress about our work. Relying on my husband to “get it” was not helpful—or fair to him. There’s nothing like talking to people who have an intimate understanding of your work.
Great post. I think one thing that is adding undue complexity is our phone. Doom scrolling, FB, etc. puts us more into a realm of negativity.
BTW, based on limited research, I think the creation of numbers came well before writing.