I agree, I think that may be the worst thing about it and it's really tough. Co-workers would go for a night out or have an event in the office and I'd miss out on that.
You also miss a lot of the casual conversation that goes on in the office and feel out of the loop. You will always be out of the loop somewhat if you work remotely 100%.
The way I coped with it is that I considered those negatives to be less than the positives that remote working brought me.
Born in 1979, engineer, doctorate in 2008, I've started my working activity both as a researcher and as a freelance in the industrial automation field.
In my case there are 2 things that let me cope with it:
1- incedibly my remote employer pays me more than the onsite employers (I'm a freelancer and I have a number of companies I work for)
2- I set stints of 40-45 min than I "pause" the job doing some house keeping, freeing me from having to do it in the WE.
I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
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Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
I agree, I think that may be the worst thing about it and it's really tough. Co-workers would go for a night out or have an event in the office and I'd miss out on that.
You also miss a lot of the casual conversation that goes on in the office and feel out of the loop. You will always be out of the loop somewhat if you work remotely 100%.
The way I coped with it is that I considered those negatives to be less than the positives that remote working brought me.
In my case there are 2 things that let me cope with it:
1- incedibly my remote employer pays me more than the onsite employers (I'm a freelancer and I have a number of companies I work for)
2- I set stints of 40-45 min than I "pause" the job doing some house keeping, freeing me from having to do it in the WE.
You should tell that you had spies at work ;)
Yes having you as a co-worker in the office and someone I could talk with was great!