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I used to be one of the most productive members of the team. I used to take pride in my work, how much I could get done and how quickly. I used to love taking up any problem thrown at me. Now I hate working. I am not even able to concentrate for 5 min and get myself to start working and get in the zone. I am new to the team. However the timing of joining overlapped with the stay at home notice and now I feel like a dead weight and an outsider with no significant contribution. They are cutting me slack but I feel like no one cares if I work or not. AND I HATE THIS. I feel like I am letting them down. I did not realize earlier but majority of my social life was in office. I don't have anyone to hang out with anymore. I feel completely lost. Help me! 5 YOE , TC 200k
I think a lot of young people without a family are in the same boat. I recommend doing catch up calls with friends and actively planning weekend activities so that weekdays aren’t a stretch. Regarding work, try to have deadlines visible to teammates and then push yourself to meet those through the week while having a decent wlb.
You are not alone, I wish the Gov would have considered how that would affect people's mental health before ordering everyone to stay home for months. There is a price to pay for not interacting with people on a daily basis.
Yes and no right. If everyone wore masks we could resume close to normal but we have a strong contingent that refuses to be told what to do
But being practical, its hard to enforce everyone to do one thing, civilizations have perished trying to make everyone worship one deity, and they had a stronger over reach so basically this whole thing cant all come down to masks, seriously what have the Gov been doing with all the research money for defense against biomedical weapons, they basically failed that, and we are paying the price.
This really sounds sad. I think you should go out for walks maybe 3 to 5 times a day. Talk to family members on the phone, and maybe call old school buddies.
Tried that and have been talking to my girlfriend everyday, but she is not in US and we can't make any plans of meeting anytime soon. So that also adds to the pain.
Not for social life reasons but I find WFH does make work relationships harder, feel way more tension/conflict from a screen. In person you kinda have to be nicer and show empathy, too easy to be a jerk remotely
Haven't felt that. The guilt is more on my part because I am operating on like 10% of what I would have otherwise done. Thankfully the team members are very understanding.
I’m going through exactly the same. No interest to work, backlog is growing. My manager is cutting some slack because of my past performance but it’ll run out very soon.
Same here. I had what I considered a really good mental health, now I feel how anxiety is affecting my overall well-being , I workout in a reg basis , do long walks, call friends and family, and even I took some days off recently.but I just lost my motivation and can't focus anymore. It's a bummer, I love my job I need to find a solution soon or the good productivity level I reached at the beginning of this year is going to be vanished by bad performance.
Same here:(
Hang tight! Hopefully this will be over soon - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/moderna-says-its-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-produced-robust-immune-response-in-all-patients.html
Not holding my breath for this
But deep inside the reality is many ppl are just techie zombies they truely have no social life. Earning dollars and have zero personal relationship to share it with someone. it's high time to realise where we leading and do we need to revisit priorities. At the end life is with ppl and not with money. Good luck.
I know, but I really like my work. I enjoy playing with systems/computers and bending and shaping them to my will. So the seclusion was more to do with the fact that even at home I would take up side projects related to tech only and my social needs were met in office. Money is good but not the driving factor. It does grant a peace of mind and freedom.
No worries with time we people and thus needs change. And usually we take family for granted when we are at home. Recheck your feelings, needs, priority, happiness factors. Time has move on so as you. And once u have answer it will be sorted
For people not accustomed to working from home, the transition can be very difficult and quite a long process. I have been working from home for 12 years and I would say that honestly the first 5 years were full of waves of extreme motivation followed by despair at times. Something does click after a while, obviously faster for some than others, and you do get used to it. One of the greatest realisations is to accept that motivation comes in waves and mitigate the downtime other ways. At our company we spend hours together with the team in virtual rooms on Discord. It really feels like we're in an office too.
That’s kind of a sad realization, no? Maybe this is the aha moment you need to build more on your personal relationships.