I work at home now and I don’t think I ever want to go back to an office setting.
Had someone told me that this would be the case just a few years ago, I would have laughed in their face.
I’ve only had two jobs in my life. They were both in the same industry but with two different companies. The first was right out of college for just a few years before I got this one. This job was quite the upgrade. The office had zone controlled HVAC and I had a thermostat right near my office. I got to travel for business and even had an expense account. Before I started a family, this was just the best life ever. But once you’re a mom, those business trips just mess up everyone’s schedule. Still, I really loved where I worked and the zone controlled HVAC was just heaven. If you have to wear business attire all the time, at least I had wonderful quality heating and air so I was comfortable. Honestly, I couldn’t have imagined working from home. I’d done it a bit after the kids were born and I didn’t care for it at all. I wanted to be back in the zone controlled HVAC of the office. That changed for good once I was forced to figure out working from my own air conditioning during the pandemic. And to my utter astonishment, I was even better at my job in my own air conditioning than I was inside the zone controlled HVAC of work. That’s where I plan to stay as well.