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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by FpUser on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:26AM (#29712666)
>"really miss leaving work early on Fridays to go to the pub"

I used to have this when I was employed (about 20 years ago). Somehow my personal take was that it gets tiring pretty fast. I've had enough friends outside of employment and wit the very rare exception would very much prefer to socialize with them rather than coworkers.

I then went on my own and have never looked back. The fact that I am doing quite ok means that I am productive. I design and implement new software products for my own company or for clients.

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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by lexapro on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:35AM (#29712733)
A lot of people don't have enough friends outside of employment.
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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by WJW on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:14AM (#29713447)
Surely OP, who is "very extraverted" in their own words, would not lack friends outside of employment. Even if they did, they could always go out and make new ones.
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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by jdavis703 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:39AM (#29713643)
People have become much more insular since the pandemic. I live in the night life district. Nearly two years in, the neighborhood is still clearly far less lively than in 2019, despite the fact that at least the businesses that didn’t go bankrupt have all reopened at 100% capacity, and our neighborhood has a 95%+ vaccination rate (meaning vax mandates aren’t keeping people in, and vaxxed folks should feel safe going out).
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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by sokoloff on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:52AM (#29714845)
> vaxxed folks should feel safe going out

This might be over-estimating the numeracy and relative risk-judgment of people.

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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by dev_tty01 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:43PM (#29715999)
True enough. But is this a problem with WFH vs in-office? Or this just an issue of people not prioritizing having a life outside of work? For most of us, it won't happen unless we actively commit energy to the process.

(I am commenting outside of the constraints of the pandemic. Covid obviously makes it much harder.)

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Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? by cybertronic on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:14PM (#29718924)
Even "extroverts"?
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