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Daily Routine is Disturbed!!
Focus and motivation are definitely hard to maintain. Not having other people around me who are being productive (I live alone, an office environment really helps me for a lot of reasons).
Proximity to a sunny spot to snooze in and proximity to other (sometimes more enjoyable) activities like baking.
Asynchronous discussions, having to wait a lot longer for colleagues to read messages and agree to things.
But one thing that really helps is routine. And shutting my laptop at the same time each day followed by doing a few laps around my yard to make a break from work to play.
The hardest part for me has to be the lack of movement. I find myself sitting in a chair for long stretches of time when I'm at home. I'm still looking for ways to integrate movement back into my routine.
Staying focused on work related tasks rather than focusing on personal projects.
Stay without my family! 😭
The hardest part of working from home is whether your employer fully understands - and supports - working from home. (There's a future blog post in this concept.) So many people talk about working from home like it's a panacea. But I've experienced too many horror stories where my employer was suspicious of work-from-home employees. Or where the remaining in-office employees were either unwilling or unable to accommodate those working from home.
The roomates that don't work.
My wife is also working from home. We share a small apartment and her work involves a fair amount of phone calls.
I think sometimes you turn off that you're not working anymore, and the day it's over... Because the COVID-19 I started working from home and I realize it's very difficult to have a routine/discipline, somedays I work more than 10 hours other days less than 8...
But I prefer to go to the company, talk with my coworkers, living in the company environment...
The hardest thing for me is not having a good place to sit and work. In the first few weeks of working from home every day would end with my back and shoulders in knots. I’ve gotten a bit better about it though, but nothing compares to my comfy office chair.
After many years remote, I now struggle to feel like I'm part of the world. I don't commute, I don't mingle, I don't get lunch in the city centre, I'm no longer party to the effects of the weather, no more icy day complaints, I don't see the effects of society changing events such as this very pandemic. I just eat, sleep, work, repeat. I have a lot of extra time and sometimes find myself just stood around like Pablo Escobar.
At this point, everything becomes a little unstructured and blurred. It makes you question life.
In my case, I have solved almost all problems related to remote work over the last years, but I still struggle with the following:
Sometimes mismatch in lunch time with family.
Definitely not getting interrupted by people. I try to have a 'don't bother me unless I bother you (or something's on fire)' kind of rule in place, which, to be fair, seems to work most of the time.
But it's definitely difficult as a developer when you're really focussed on something, one of those problems where you need to spin about 5 different mental plates, and then something (cough, the wife) bursts into the office to share a new subreddit that they found....especially when you're known about that subreddit for years...
Cook and wash dishes.