boys & girls --- hope everyone is still reeling from yesterday's bender
I never thought id be making this post, but here I am.....
where do I start, earlier this year I was so super pumped to be joining full time at work - good job, life was good
however things did not go according to plan. Im not sure if this is a COVID thing but I am struggling to make friends at work. Maybe it's the way my firm is structured, but I am the only junior person on my team, so I've been finding it extremely hard to meet and make friends. Things got better when we all came back to the office this past fall, but I was quickly reminded of how depressing and lonely this job is when we all went back remotely.
Am I giving up too easily? Idk, making friends at work was probably the last issue I could have envisioned before starting this job.
Was curious if anyone else was experiencing this...
Def Covid-lockdown driven. I started remotely & its been tough.
COVID induced
I've started at two firms during COVID - difficult to bond.
Two firms?? What's made you move around if I can ask??
wage increase and better experience. and would do it again if another opportunity comes up.
ya really hoping things turn back to normal real quick. always hear how everyone builds those friendships with their analyst class
also idk about everyone else, but I actually love going into the office. Idk - feel like im the only one at my work that feels like this, but I just like the human interaction of meeting people instead of talking through zoom.
Some of the more senior WSO monkeys can chime in, but I think it's mostly an age thing. What I mean by that is when you're in your early/mid twenties, still living and loving the single life, no outside responsibilities, it's real easy and positive to form those bonds with your incoming class. Especially as you all age together and go through the same basket of experiences around roughly the same timeframe. Then, as you get older and meet your spouse, start a family, even just buy your own home, aka outside the office responsibilities, then you want to better divy up your time and attention.
Lots of BO/MO peeps like being able to just do their regular accounting work or clerical work from home throughout the day while spending 15-30minutes here and there with their kiddos or being able to take care of indigent family. Heck, I know plenty of folks that just up and spend a week or two at a time in a new city since they're remote now and don't have to be in a fixed place. And yes, they're happier than before because that was always what they wanted to be doing.
I have a lot of mixed emotions about teleworking. On the one hand, I love being able to roll out of bed at 8:55 and signed in by 9 am. I sometimes take a shower in the middle of the day. There is no commute. My clothes budget went from, like, $3,000/year to $100(?). My dry cleaning bill went from $600 or so a year to $100. And the best part is, private bathrooms--I utterly detest public bathrooms.
BUT, I also realize that this is really, really bad for human beings long-term. There is no--and I mean ZERO--team camaraderie the way there was pre-Covid. It was SOOO easy to make new friends. You kind of identified as part of the company tribe. Now I feel nothing for my company--if I changed companies, there would be no material difference--I'd still work in the same place. Pre-Covid I used to make 2 or 3 good, close friends every year, mostly from work; that has fallen to 1(?) since the start of Covid. I see 80% fewer people today. I guess if you're already married with kids and a dog teleworking is a good thing, but for everyone else it's...actively bad for us, for developing people skills, making friends, meeting girls (guys?), doing things that are difficult but character building (from the basic things like showering in the morning and showing up to work on time to the complex things like dealing with people we don't like). These little daily character building exercises turn us into good men and women; a generation that only knows telework will be lesser for it.
Don't worry you guys will be back in the office shortly. Omnicron being a common cold and Fauci reducing covid isolation time is sign that the glory days will be back in the office.
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