I work as a data scientist in a remote setting. I meet my team once a quarter. Here in Bangalore all my friends and my wife have work from office so I end up getting too lonely working from home. Also, this has shrinked my network compared to before. How are others in the city handling this? What forums, IRL places do you visit to counter this. Imho, This surely isn't great for long term career prospects.
I am on the same boat as you. I won't saybim struggling with loneliness but I'm really missing out on networking, and work related discussions that usually happen in offices. Where you get those lateral ideas from. Being a local from here I'm not wholly open to the idea of moving to Gurgaon for work either except from quarterly visits (which honestly doesn't help with visibility that much)
I tried Coffee Mug, and cold networking with relevant folks on LinkedIn within Bangalore. Didn't find Coffee Mug that useful tbh, the networking on LinkedIn stopped but people don't really have time to meet a rando without an agenda. So stopped that now as well.
Last year I changed my approach and thought instead of socializing professionally with am agenda, let me just focus on getting out of home and meet people. So I took up volunteering, social dancing and board games events. Again, at this point I'm unable to tell how much this is/ or will help me in my career. But I feel moderately better, and not that I am an un-social persons, a lot of people skills were refreshed from doing these activities. Oh, and took 2 separate month long solo vacations as well.
On the career part I built a annual long learning plan, to keep myself skilled. Alas, I'm not a tech guy either so going to Meetups wasn't really helpful either.
Looking to see if anyone has anything to share on this here.
Somebody is enjoying your wife's company co they have wfo, go out ,wfo and enjoy company of other's wife.
Thats not fun dude
Thanks for the replies guys. The loneliness here doesn't mean I don't have friends. I have a very supportive and healthy friend circle here and I am quite social. It's the work mates, you can bounce your ideas with and learn from those water cooler conversations that I am missing. It's been 3 years like this and I feel a little left out. The networking and meetups idea is good. I will try that. Sitting in coffee shop is a little not that helpful because everyone is busy in their thing and you don't get to have a comfortable chair or table. So it's not something you can do every day.
Which company?
There is no true virtual replacement to water cooler conversations. I work in a similar setting. What I do is that on 1-1 calls, after the work related discussion is over, you can have a little chat with the person for about 5 mins (if the person has time).
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