WFH or WFO

Working from home has been a love and a hate thing for me in the past almost two years now, I mean with the pandemic raging on one of my jobs has informed me that we will be working form home well into next year and honestly it makes sense, I fully expect for there to be another lock down, its just a matter of when not if, because people are really vaccine hesitant. With that being said here is what I have been thinking about work from home, and some things that just makes WFH more bearable.

I have been through three desk set ups, now. Luckily I have enough space in the room to have a desk, but I have gone through three versions, and have ended up with a standing desk. This was a gift form friend that was no longer using it because it would have been close to 600 dollars I if wanted it on my own, I just needed to purchase the bolts that it needed.

I definitely do not miss the commute and the traffic. I still get up early and try to enjoy my morning. As a person that is always concerned about getting somewhere on time (at least sometimes) when I was needing to commute I would try to leave the house early to either meditate in the car when I got to work, and/or I needed to find parking. So leaving on time was also an hour before work started.

I am cooking more, and I am able to enjoy my lunch better because I can keep it in my fridge. I do miss the people that I was working with, and I miss the quiet with working in an office setting. There is also an advantage with working from home if there are people that depend on you, but that is also a disadvantage if that means that they always have access to you, or you have access to them. I find that my organizational skills are the same and that I am needing to put them in use more often, and oddly enough I still use a paper planner. Working from the office I would at times have the ability to leave work at work, with working from home I do find that I am working longer on tasks.

All of this to say that I am liking working from home and I would also like a dedicated office space to do my work, I also think that once I am needing to go back into the office as soon as I experience traffic again, im going to wish I was solely working from home lol