COVID

I’m over it.

Six months of being at home with no social life.  The house is filthy.  The days are closing in (might try a SAD light, ksand - what was the verdict on yours?). We are all irritable.  The six month wall is real!

Sorry to hear that .

I've only been doing it for 3 months and missed the worst of it, but I'm starting to struggle now... just generally feeling emotional about the state of the world all the time. I watched a documentary about RBG on Sunday night and pretty much cried all the way through it.

The days are closing in (might try a SAD light, ksand - what was the verdict on yours?).

I found it really good... when I first got it, I was in a real slump, just feeling horribly depressed, but within a week or two of using the SAD lamp every day, I felt much better. Not sure how much was the lamp itself helping and how much was psychological. Haven't used it since the end of 2019 though, as I've been in 'summer' conditions since January.

I’m over it.

Six months of being at home with no social life.  The house is filthy.  The days are closing in (might try a SAD light, ksand - what was the verdict on yours?). We are all irritable.  The six month wall is real!

Go for it.  If you start using it around this time of year, it's supposed to help more than if you wait until later in the year.
Feel better.   

I feel fine, if you know what I mean.  I don’t have any genuine complaints in life.  We are all healthy and happy.  I’m just irritable!     Maybe it’s hormonal and I’ll feel better in a few days.  One can hope. 

I do think I’ll order a light.  Two things held me back in the past, the cost (They seem to have dropped in price or I just feel they are worth it now).  And the “not wanting to take it to work”. Now that I’m home based, easy peasy.

I can't wait for the boss to find a co-working space so I can get out of the house and spend some days working from an office-like environment.

COVID - I'm sick of it.

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I can't wait for the boss to find a co-working space so I can get out of the house and spend some days working from an office-like environment.

COVID - I'm sick of it.

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There are sooooooo many things I miss about being in an office. There are great pros to being at home. But I do need to talk to 3 demential people!

That's funny because I'm feeling the same thing and it really kicked in yesterday.  I used to go for a bike ride or a walk every day after work and now it's getting darker and darker.  Wouldn't it be great if we could skip changing the clocks this year?

KFdancer, you should pop by the local care home.  I'm sure they could find 3 dementia sufferers for you to spend time with.

Mmm, I was feeling really over it all last week and was pretty grumpy. I'm a bit better this week, but it's still really gloomy. 

I'm still actually really happy working from home and luckily, thankfully, still working.  This working from home suits me just fine. I guess I don't like people 

I am desperately missing my musical endeavours though.  In England, bands (well winds and brass) and choirs can meet up if they go through all kinds of covid secure stuff and risk assessments.   We cannot in Scotland, except for 2 households only, outdoors at 2 meters apart.  So not much of a band/choir at all. Music and playing music with my friends is such a mood booster and it's making me really sad to not play. 

Top it off with the state of the US politics and I'm gloomy, AF.   

I suspect the state of things will get much worse, before they get better.

That's funny because I'm feeling the same thing and it really kicked in yesterday.  I used to go for a bike ride or a walk every day after work and now it's getting darker and darker.  Wouldn't it be great if we could skip changing the clocks this year?

KFdancer, you should pop by the local care home.  I'm sure they could find 3 dementia sufferers for you to spend time with.

Well played Jimbo!    Made me laugh out loud. Stupid autocorrect!

Pretty much feeling the same the right now. Our global HQ have advised that we will not be going into an office till at least March 2021....

I have been working from home since February this year (it’s starting to get to me!)

The one thing which has helped is I recently signed up to this new service called WeCoffee, you pay a yearly subscription and it allows you to book remote working spaces across several UK wide location (like a space in a coffee shop, a hotel conference room in a nice lobby etc etc)

https://wecoffee.io

I have used that on those days where I do need to get away and it’s worked a charm.
Both my wife and I have been WFH however she does need to go in twice a week or so.

The silver lining in all of this is I do NOT miss London Tube travel or working on a train or an airport or a flight and living out of suitcase (the life of a consultant).

The not so silver lining is I have accumulated NO air miles or hotel stay points this year lol!

Hang in there everyone :-)


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I ordered a sad light. It arrives tomorrow.

The part I find hard about not being in the office has been the onboarding in my new role. In the office, people will overhear your conversation and say “have you asked Nick?  I think he did something like that for Client.”  And just the chatter with others. Having to schedule EVERYTHING is tiring.

I LOVE my commute. And I love picking my daughter up from school. But I suffer from terrible insomnia and have always struggled to get up in the morning. Now I don’t need to roll out of bed until 8:55am so I go to bed really late. It’s not good. 

The part I find hard about not being in the office has been the onboarding in my new role. In the office, people will overhear your conversation and say “have you asked Nick?  I think he did something like that for Client.”  And just the chatter with others. Having to schedule EVERYTHING is tiring.

Yes, I think that would be very hard, trying to start a new job in a working from home situation.  Much easier when you're there to learn organically.   

I'm sure you all know, since I mention it at every opportunity    .... I am still going to the office every day, despite having been begging to work from home for over 2 years... long before COVID... and despite having a job that could EASILY be done from home (I quality-check mortgages for a bank).

Because of this, I don't feel like my life has changed much at all due to COVID.  I suppose when it was lock-down, and the pubs weren't open, I felt it a little, but I wasn't that bothered because I was boozing at home and having Zoom chats with my pub friends. 

The only thing I've really missed is live music.... 4 gigs I had tickets for have been cancelled this year, and I'm expecting the 5th one to cancel any day now.   

I'm still actually really happy working from home and luckily, thankfully, still working.  This working from home suits me just fine. I guess I don't like people 

I do enjoy working from home as well (though I've only been doing it for 3 months)... but I think that's mostly because of the nature of my job.

I work 12-hour shifts so physically going into work means sacrificing the whole day as I'm out from 6:30 am to 7:45pm... but if I work from home, I can get all sorts of things done during the day or on my break, which I wouldn't be able to do if I was in the office... things like doing the laundry, preparing food, cleaning, mowing the lawn, popping to the shops etc.

Also, it means I can just roll out of bed and turn on the computer, and then eat breakfast/get ready properly later... instead of getting up between 4:30 and 5:45 am, having a shower, getting dressed, eating breakfast and then driving either 20 minutes or up to 1 hour to work (depending on which base I'm working at that day). It also means that on a night shift, I can take a nap in my own bed for a couple of hours, and I can go straight to bed as soon as I finish at 7:15 am, instead of not being allowed to sleep on my break at work, and commuting up to an hour back home in rush-hour traffic (and I've almost fallen asleep at the wheel before).

I have a day and a night shift at a different base coming up in the next few days (they have continued to work in the office as they have to do the weather observations 24/7 in case they have to scramble the jets at short notice)... and it's 30 miles away, which means 2 hours of commuting on each day.

Edited to add: Also, when I do work in the office, I'm either working alone or with at most 1 or 2 other people, and the majority of my communication with colleagues is via phone calls, emails, conference calls and Skype messages... so it's not like I'm missing a whole lot of socialising by not being in the office.

It would be great to understand what everyone does for a living here, you all seem to have interesting careers.

I work as a senior manager consultant and transformation leader for a major tech company, IBM.
Mostly my clients are banks or other financial services organisations where I work with them on digital transformation projects :-)

Whoes next ?


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