| I started my working life in a University, where I had colleagues but more or less worked on my own even when I was in an office. At some point I quit, went through some other jobn searches, and started working from home doing software dev work. SO I've been working on my own for 20 years, and 10 of those have been doing remote dev work. Two things have been helpful: - I had a family for most of that time,
- I have activities outside of work (playing music and rock climbing) that I need to interact with other folks to do. For the first six weeks or so of the pandemic quarantine I curtailed those activities. At this point, I now have a small group of 10 or so people across two bands and a couple of dudes I climb with, and so I am back into having some socialization. If I get exposed (or anyone in my groups is exposed), it's a small enough set of people I can contract trace. So, with the exception of the 75-person buddist group I was going to and playing music in bars, I am more or less back to the amount of socialization I was getting before the pandemic. That's what keeps me from feeling isolated. |