2024-09-17: staring down the end of wfh

at this point i've spent about five years total working fully remote. that's a pretty significant portion of my working life. and while that'll be continuing into next year, i'm now looking at a year or less until i'm back into a mostly-in-office "hybrid" arrangement, and i'm just...sad.

sad because i'll have to waste 1.5-2 hrs each day commuting, sad because i'll be less productive in a loud office environment than in my quiet home office, sad because i won't get to hang out with my dogs, to take them for walks at lunch. my older dog isn't young. next year he'll be 14. i've been able to be around all day during his twilight years, look after him.

it just sucks, and i hate that it's nothing more than unimaginative management aping what all the other companies are doing. it could've been good; we could've been happy, fulfilled. instead, we're pretending the last four years didn't happen.

fuck off into the sun.

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