Dre617 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Yea, I enjoy working from home since I am also saving about 3 hours of commute plus ~$300 in transportation cost (parking, gas and misc). I stare at a computer screen for most of my day so nothing changes work wise, though I used to get up and walk around sometimes which I dont do anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infosecdad Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 It's a limited subset of the workforce that can realistically do their jobs remotely. And a smaller subset of those people that can actually thrive and enjoy it. I'm fortunate to have worked in the cybersecurity realm for years and have been working from home for close to a decade now. It's not for everyone, it's hard to stay focused, but if you can, you can do so much more in less time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 I used to wear headphones and high volume sound to isolate enough to get work done. My favorite coworkers would skip sending email or texts and instead walk over and tap me on the shoulder. I'd jump a foot, point out that rtfm would have been better for both of us and then take lunch. After a beer or two, my heart rate would be back to normal. Private offices were so much more efficient than warehouse seating. sigh... Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 In our little neck of the world, mask wearing is approaching nearly 100% compliance. It turns out masks are very effective at combating wildfire smoke. Especially if you have a good one, such as an covid19 worthy one. Go figure Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm25rs Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Only 12% of people want to work from home according to a new study, most people require more of a social aspect to their lives or they become depressed. Only the most introverted people can hack it. Part of the problem with work from home during pandemic is that pandemic also limits social life. If you could work from home then meet up with friends for happy hour would be a bit different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammcinnis Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) We used to calculate work time on projects at 30-50% of a person's daily work hours, and still slipped deadlines. Two personal observations: Over 30+ years running my own business, the highest I was ever able to achieve was ~60% of my "at work" time billable to clients or projects; ~40% was more typical. The rest of my time was consumed by administrative overhead, supervision, planning, sales support, customer relations, vendor relations, research, professional development/continuing education, travel, etc. I worked from home (originally built as a doctor's home/office) the first two years after starting the business. My productivity improved dramatically when I was finally able to rent commercial office space only 10 minutes away. Being able to compartmentalize work life vs. home life turned out to be important to me, but I still got some of my best ideas during my morning shower. Edited September 10, 2020 by ammcinnis "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." ~ The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammcinnis Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Here's an interesting and powerful excerpt from a recent COVID-19 essay in the New York Times by a writer from Las Vegas: "In March, my husband was laid off from a casino, and I lost a majority of my clients as a freelance writer. In June, the Strip reopened to unmasked tourists drunk on margaritas and the falsehood of a world without disease. By August, we were sick." (I wish I could write like that.) Edited September 12, 2020 by ammcinnis "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." ~ The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDTurbo Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Two personal observations: I still got some of my best ideas during my morning shower. The 3 Ss...great thinkin' time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brady Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Only 12% of people want to work from home according to a new study, most people require more of a social aspect to their lives or they become depressed. Only the most introverted people can hack it. I don't think that's true. I've been working from home for 2-1/2 years, and I'm anything but an introvert. However, until March, I structured my life that I was meeting up with different groups 3-4 days a week after work. Running groups on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday usually (or skiing on Saturdays in winter), with occasional happy hour groups on Wednesdays or Thursdays, including the odd running group some Thursdays. It is hard not seeing faces, but it's not too hard to do things like go get coffee before work, go out for lunch (or meet a friend for lunch), take a walk in the neighborhood. If you have a routine that puts you in front of people, it becomes easy. I think the bigger challenge for many people is managing distractions at home. Piece of cake when I was single and living alone. Now that I'm living with my girlfriend and her kids, it's TOUGH to stay focused with a crying baby, home schooling, kids harassing the cats, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brady Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 And there it is, the unbridled truth. When I work from home, I can stay very focused all day long, often I get more done from home because I don't have coworker distractions, but many people can't. Then add remote learning, kids at home to the mix and it's a recipe for not getting much done. For these reasons, I just don't see working remotely as 'the future' of the workplace. It has a place but that's about it. I should have kept reading before I replied. I think working from home will become more popular as long as Remote Learning doesn't become the norm. Remote learning is HARD. I think having an "office" is going to become a very big selling point for homes in the future. I want to convert my girlfriend's very large, and somewhat awkward bedroom (about 10.5' x 25') into a more normal size bedroom with a small office/nursery next to it. I think having that separate space would be more appealing to buyers than such a large bedroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickDastardly00 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 My wife, who has been working from home during the whole pandemic, put it like this (and for the record she is somewhat shy but still an extrovert), she said "working remotely has been ok, but when you don't have a social life after work due to the pandemic, and have the ability to see friends in person, that's a big problem.". I have a 5bdr house with an office which I use as a music room/recording studio. There are two wood desks in there, one we set up as a study area for my son. My daughter has a desk in her room, and my wife set herself up at the dining room table, so far that arrangement is working. ♪Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.♫ -Bob Marley, Redemption Song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 A significant proportion of patients who develop life-threatening forms of Covid-19 have genetic or immunological defects that impair their ability to fight the virus, research has found. In papers published in the journal Science, the Covid Human Genetic Effort international consortium describes two glitches in severely ill Covid-19 patients that prevent them from making a frontline immune molecule called type 1 interferon. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/genetic-immune-defects-may-impair-ability-fight-covid-19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 One coworker’s wife and son got the COVID, he didn’t have symptoms and went back to work after quarantine. Now one of my best friends at work has it. Just diagnosed today got tested when he lost his sense of smell. Says it’s weird not being able to smell anything. So he’s quarantined now, and waiting to see how things progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I don't think that's true. I've been working from home for 2-1/2 years, and I'm anything but an introvert. However, until March, I structured my life that I was meeting up with different groups 3-4 days a week after work. Running groups on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday usually (or skiing on Saturdays in winter), with occasional happy hour groups on Wednesdays or Thursdays, including the odd running group some Thursdays. It is hard not seeing faces, but it's not too hard to do things like go get coffee before work, go out for lunch (or meet a friend for lunch), take a walk in the neighborhood. If you have a routine that puts you in front of people, it becomes easy. I think the bigger challenge for many people is managing distractions at home. Piece of cake when I was single and living alone. Now that I'm living with my girlfriend and her kids, it's TOUGH to stay focused with a crying baby, home schooling, kids harassing the cats, etc. Wait what? You’re shacked up with a girl with kids? Instant family? You have one with her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs]Slow Motion Sneeze in 4K - The Slow Mo Guys with Dr Anthony Fauci - YouTube[/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Had my own covid scare a couple of weeks ago. In-laws think covid is fake news, so they still have large gatherings with no masks. One of them visited a house where a covid victim was quarantining. Somehow that fact didn't come up until another visitor got sick. Contact tracing required 50+ ppl to get tested and quarantine until results came back. Because of rules with school, I had to quarantine two weeks and retest. Not sure how we all got lucky, but no one is infected. Most of them still don't wear masks. Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infosecdad Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) I've been dealing with COVID for a week now. It sucks. For me, new symptoms almost every day. Not getting better yet. I've had fever, shortness of breath, cough, major fatigue, headaches, diarrhea, ear pain, eye pain, chest pain, general weakness, inability to focus for more than 5 min, can't talk for more than a couple min, getting up to pee results in bracing myself on the way back, heavy breathing for 5 min and a heart rate in the 110s. Haven't tasted or smelled anything for a week. My wife brought me pop tarts, I asked "what color"... It varies for people, I can only speak for my own experience; and this experience really sucks. I've been locked in my room for a week now trying to keep my family from getting it. Hoping each day that it will start to improve. Maybe tomorrow is the day. Edited October 23, 2020 by Infosecdad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDTurbo Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 It does suck for some. I believe I had it in late November and had to think hard to recall that I was very fatigued and short of breath for a few weeks thereafter. Fortunately I avoided Thanksgiving as I never want to share illness with my old folks in their 80s...in March I had a sinus/headcold very atypical for me with low grade fever and loss of taste/smell. I tested COVID antibody positive in May (free test thru work), eliciting my having to recollect if I had been sick before that. Best wishes for a recovery soon, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitexc Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) A woman that my fiance works with came in sick two weeks ago. She ended up testing positive and infecting 11 of 21 people in the office(my lady one of the positive cases and thankfully only suffered from very minor symptoms). Contact tracing was likely in the hundreds if people reported correctly. What a mess. Luckily I tested negative and had sick time to be able to use at work for pay. Some people aren't so fortunate. Best wishes to a speedy recovery Infosecdad. Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk Edited October 23, 2020 by whitexc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttnio Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 the protocols that circles around the plandemic has started to affect the economy globally, by the second quarter of 2021 there will be more protocols to limit our freedom of movement and compulsory mandates to wear masks, social distancing, identification requirements to enter a establishment. The new year will bring more restrictions and protocols, to harm the healthy rather than cure. the bill gates vaccine will be also be implemented, for the preparation of the New World Order and mark of the beast. no vaccine, we will face lock down and quarantine within our home. Worst, there will be concentration camps for people that will refuse or have not gotten the vaccine. It will be impose and compel to all citizens of the world. etc... my hear ye, hear ye, on the plandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDTurbo Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Ohhhhhhh K, Nostradamus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttnio Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 thank you. i fully hope i am wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 thank you. i fully hope i am wrong. you should run for public office. You certainly have the rhetoric down Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 you should run for public office. You certainly have the rhetoric down Start with warming up in the Political Arena first. Just contact bosco for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammcinnis Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 my hear ye, hear ye, on the plandemic. Take it to the PA. "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." ~ The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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