{"id":6352,"date":"2024-02-27T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justshareforyou.store\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:03:08","slug":"my-honest-thoughts-on-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justshareforyou.store\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/my-honest-thoughts-on-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"My Honest Thoughts On Working From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n I\u2019ve officially been working from home for over one month.
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\n I don\u2019t know why, but I feel like I need to reiterate the fact that I\u2019m EXTREMELY lucky that I still have a job and I am able to work from home.\n <\/p>\n

\n But working from home is something I never thought I\u2019d say I didn\u2019t like. FOR YEARS, I was always so jealous of people who were able to work from home. A lot of it obviously stemmed from not feeling like I had enough time to work on my side business.
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\n And then once I realized I was doing a job I didn\u2019t really love
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\n , I kept thinking over and over how much happier I would be if I was working from home.\n <\/p>\n

\n Well, fast forward a few months into a new job that I love, I can truthfully say
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\n I HATE WORKING FROM HOME.
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\n Why? HERE\u2019S WHY\u2026\n <\/p>\n

\n i miss being social
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\n THE. NUMBER. ONE. FACTOR.\n <\/p>\n

\n I\u2019m naturally a super social person. Sure, I occasionally like sitting in and being by myself. But this quarantine has taken it to a whole new level. I enjoy being able to be out and about with people. After working home for over a month, I can\u2019t believe I ever even complained about going to an office every day.\n <\/p>\n

\n You better believe I won\u2019t be doing that going forward.\n <\/p>\n

\n Our current office set up was in \u201cpods\u201d. So our merchandising pod was HOME. I was just starting to get comfortable in my new environment. There are four of us on my team and we are all so similar, yet so different. But the laughs I\u2019ve already had at work are so insane. I thoroughly enjoyed going to work every day. We worked so hard, but still knew the importance of taking small breaks to just chat and laugh with our coworkers.\n <\/p>\n

\n I cannot wait to get back there and hug them all!\n <\/p>\n

\n i have a weird routine
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\n These days, the most routine I have is rolling out of bed and opening up my laptop. I know this is mainly my own fault, but like, I just don\u2019t have it in me to wake up earlier, shower (I was always a night showerer), and put make up on for the day. Who would have guessed that I\u2019d miss my morning wake up and commute??? Not me.\n <\/p>\n

\n If I was at my house, I would wake up around 7:15AM to be on the bus by 8AM (I know, it takes me ZERO time to get ready). If I was at my boyfriend\u2019s place, I\u2019d wake up around 8:30AM and be out the door by 9:10AM. I\u2019d walk to the R\/W train on 22nd and Broadway, and hop on the subway. I miss walking into my Times Square office building every day, heading up to the 5th floor to get my iced coffee and breakfast \u2013 either oatmeal or cereal \u2013 and then heading up to the 14th floor to my desk.\n <\/p>\n

\n Routines are so important, so not having one is definitely something I hate about working from home.\n <\/p>\n

\n i don\u2019t have the proper set up
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\n This is another big factor. My desk at work had two monitors, a ton of space, all of my folders and linesheets, etc. When I started working from home on March 16th, I stayed at my boyfriend\u2019s apartment. I don\u2019t think we truly anticipated how long this was going to last, but nonetheless, I\u2019m still here. For about three weeks, I was working from the couch and an ottoman as my desk. Not ideal. Luckily, my angel of a guy, cleared off his desk and set up a station for me so I can be way more productive.\n <\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s also the fact that everyone is pretty much on their Internet. So the Internet here has been slightly spotty over the last two weeks. Connectivity is another issue I didn\u2019t think about going into working from home. One day, the WiFi was out from 12PM-7PM. I couldn\u2019t get ANY work done or attend our virtual meetings. How crappy is that?! Again, very lucky someone was able to come fix the issue, but still \u2013 ANNOYING. I MISS CORPORATE INTERNET!!!\n <\/p>\n

\n i feel guilty
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\n I honestly feel guilty about working from home a lot of the time. When things are slower, I can\u2019t just ask my boss or someone on my team to show me something that I haven\u2019t learned yet. I\u2019m still relatively \u201cnew\u201d around here, so it\u2019s been a struggle to stay busy unless I have things I\u2019m told to do. I think I\u2019m finding a groove: I\u2019ve been doing a lot of market research for our team, starting projects earlier than normal, and making sure I\u2019m all caught up on emails. Yet, I still find myself feeling guilty if I even take a 30 minute break. The first week or two was pretty rough in terms of being super productive. I did the work I needed to, but found myself getting distracted by what was happening around me (mainly the TV if I\u2019m being super honest).\n <\/p>\n

\n And those are really my honest feelings about working from home. I know if this was a \u201cdifferent\u201d situation, I could most likely fix all of these issues (i.e. work from a coffee shop, buy a second monitor, actually wake up and get ready for the day). But right now, this is our reality and our normal\u2026and ya know what? I\u2019M JUST NOT LIKING IT!!!\n <\/p>\n

\n Tell me \u2013 did you work in an office and now you\u2019re all of a sudden working from home? What are you doing to make the situation better\/easier?\n <\/p>\n\n

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