Friday, April 24, 2020

Pandemic life

Working from home has it pros and cons, like anything. 

The cons are, I'm less busy working from home. Apparently, at least 1/2 of my job is just being 'seen'. In the office, I kind of sit out in the open. The introvert in me hates that. But functionally it works out great because any supervisor that walks out of their office sees me and thinks, oh yeah, can you...blah, blah, blah. But working at home, nobody sees me so they don't think to ask me to do things for them. Also, because I'm introvert, I don't get out of the house very much if I'm working from home. I guess if I were retired and this was permanent, I would have a different routine, so I would get out of the house?

The pros are many though. No commute! That's the best! Really, I think I love that the most. Also, I'm saving a ton of money on gas. I have a window office :-) I get to talk to someone during the day who's not all freaked out about work issues. I have a window office :-) There's softer T.P. at home. Free coffee. No shoes is awesome. I have a window office :-) Pretty cool. Now I know why I was such a daydreamer in school, staring out the window. I know A LOT more about my neighbors now! For instance, the lazy guy across the street runs with his dog every morning. We just call him the lazy guy because he doesn't take care of his house. He would be a better condo owner. Every week he gets a delivery from Crown Liquor and he receives many Amazon deliveries! Then there's the woman next door to him with the 7 year old. She like to decorate for every holiday, with lots of yard art! She was recently married, not to the baby daddy. And we think she's building a tiny neighborhood of her own in her backyard! There's the big pirate ship, a big shed and 2  tiny people houses. Weird huh? Especially since her son really only wants to play in the street out front. The young Indian couple next door has 2 kids. They come out to play after lunch, presumably after home schooling is done. There's a little old Jewish fella who walks up and down our street twice every morning. The young, newly married guy at the end of the street is putting fake grass in his backyard. And the old lady a few houses down, died the other day. That was sad. Oh, and we have a TON of squirrels in our neighborhood!!! 

Yep, for the most part I like working from home. I would like to go into the office maybe twice a week. Yeah, that could work for me. 

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