![]() With a young family now, I can spend more time with my kids, do more house/life maintenance, and invest more in other areas of my life. What I found to be a sacrifice in my day-to-day work satisfaction, I more than made up in my life satisfaction. I'm still a fan of remote work, not because I think it necessarily makes work better (it can go either way depending on the situation), but for many it can make your entire *life* better. I can control the amount of meetings I have and get untethered from my desk more. Luckily, I stumbled across remote fractional leadership and entrepreneurship, and I found work to be much more balanced. I just needed a break and I wasn't sure what the next steps were. As a manager and extrovert, I was slowly withering away inside zoom after zoom, struggling to get that in-person human contact. Over the next year and a half, slowly, I burnt out for the first time ever. ![]() With the pandemic, remote work removed all that in an instant. We did great work, collaborated in person, had fun, shared dumb smalltalk over coffee. I had fantastic co-workers, many who I call friends. I used to have a 10 min bike commute to the HubSpot office in Cambridge. Truthfully, I can't stand remote *work* but remote work made my *life* better.Īs an extrovert, pre-pandemic, I loved working in an office. It nearly ended my career.īut I talk about how great remote work all the time, so what gives? If I have to be honest (and what better place for honesty than LinkedIn), I hate remote work.
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