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Working from Home
A rare win-win scenario
Working from home is great. I mean, holy shit, I can’t even begin to describe the improvement to my quality of life.
Sometimes, it’s the little things, like having access to my own fridge or being able to start a load of laundry in the middle of the day. Sometimes, it’s, as an introvert, how much better I feel and how much better I work when I don’t have to be surrounded by people for eight straight hours. The most measurable benefit, though, is that I no longer commute an hour to the office. That’s 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week, 500 hours a year of my life back.
A sudden leap forward
The urgent, haphazard transition to remote work was one of the few silver linings to the nightmare of the COVID pandemic. Not to me, of course; I was still in person at that point. I had the pleasure of working, at least partly, as a customer facing employee and that meant 8–5 in an office, five days a week.
In some ways, that makes me uniquely qualified to espouse the merits of remote work, as someone who has done both and as someone who did in-person work while a huge number of other people suddenly didn’t anymore.
The difference was profound. For one thing, my hour long commute was suddenly a 40 minute commute with all that rush-hour traffic off the…
