I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible.
But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:
1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)
2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.
Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.
Finding other opportunities within the same company, where you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.
It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.
But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:
1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)
2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.
Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.
Finding other opportunities within the same company, where you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.
It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.