SwirlyPickle

I cannot work remotely.

I know a lot of people love working from home. But small rant here. Honestly, straight out of college I thought I would do too. But no, I absolutely do not.

Why?

No personality development. It's honestly like an online college all over again (1/2 of my college "life" was online). I talk to a screen, waste a lot of time otherwise.
I don't have a room to call my own. I know this is going to make me sound like a privileged brat but I need my privacy to feel my full confident self. My family members are always on top of my head and spy on me during work. No they really do.
I hate, absolutely LOATHE approaching people on teams. I'm more social, confident and comfortable working in an offline setting be it presenting something or talking to senior folks in general.
I have NO life outside of the computer/home. My hobbies, interests everything are inside the tiny room I share with my parents. I still have 2 different desks (which are literally next to each other) for work and personal stuff respectively. When I had offline semesters, it was really awesome as I had balance.

I graduated in 2023 and of course I have a lot to learn, but I'm seriously thinking about searching for another job that's not WFH. I'm still early career and I think I should not be working remote. Am I stupid?

11mo ago

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BubblyDonut

PriceLabs11mo

Work from home is hellish for extroverts. There is no alternative. I've tried co-working spaces. But nothing beats the actual office experience.

If you're young, go to office and build your network.

SwirlyPickle

Google11mo

I am NOT an extrovert. In fact I'm an introvert. But I'm talking from a career POV

DizzyPotato

Steel Exchange India11mo

Brother, you don't know that but you are an extrovert. But there is nothing wrong in being one..

WigglySushi

Stealth11mo

Don’t say this if you do not have WFO experience, do have both of at-least (6M-1Y) and then compare.

There is lot of money saving, its waste of money if you can do the same work from home and lot of time saving that can contribute to your productivity.

For development, you are only physically present at home, mentally you are at your workplace.

Have a separate room at home, do lock it so that no one can look into without your permission.

On weekends you can go anywhere, why are you feeling stuck and since you are saving lot of money in WFH you have a great freedom of spending on experience.

At last, I would suggest do have experience of both and then decide.

SleepyKoala

Infosys11mo

WFO will be great if your house is near the office.

SwirlyPickle

Google11mo

That's the thing. I cannot, do not have a separate room that I can keep locked.

ZoomyMuffin

Stealth11mo

I agree with you 3000!!!

Remote working is traumatic for new joiners, especially new graduates. I have 10yoe but recently when I started new at a job, I just cannot put in the 8hr work.

Most people will hate us both for saying this, But Workplace is where people come together and work together, chill together, solve issues together, combat boredom together,do office politics together etc.

There might be Very few jobs where working independently without any company can be productive in a sustainable way. People left alone to work on tasks will feel burnout and productivity slacking sooner.

FluffyNugget

Deloitte11mo

TwirlyJellybean

Student11mo

I exactly feel you man, I am 22 grad and doing wfh for past 1.5 years.
The only thing is whenever I think of doing wfo job my family kinda emotionally blackmails me and it kinda becomes a lot more scarier to jump to another job without family support

SwirlyPickle

Google11mo

This. My parents are super happy that I'm staying at home but at what cost?

ZoomyPretzel

Walmart11mo

To balance both i go to office in 3-6 months gap for a month every year

MagicalNarwhal

Stealth11mo

100%, I had a choice of WFH or moving out of state to office and took the latter and have no regrets. Office culture is nice and people are pleasant, the fact that I can just ask someone anything instead of scheduling a call is worth it. -Fellow 2023 batch pass out.

TwirlyWalrus

TCS11mo

The fact that we can ask just someone and not wait for a scheduled call or them to come back online, is a game changer for me!

GigglyWalrus

Nielsen IQ11mo

That doesn’t work if you have external vendor associates as part of your team. You have teams messaging as the only option

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