[jedberg]

I think you're mostly right, but I'm not sure the split is extrovert/introvert. I think it's more "I like my kids/family/home life" vs not.

I'm in technical management and would probably be considered an extrovert by engineering standards. I'm really good at navigating office politics. And I hate the office. But that's because I like my family, I like hanging out with my wife at home and my kids, and I have a great office setup at home with windows and big screens and snacks and such.

The people who I see that enjoy going to the office are either young people who live alone and/or in small places, and old people who talk crap about their spouse and kids during lunch and have an obvious disdain for them.

Well there are also the "I had to do it for my whole career, so you can suffer now too" crowd, although most of those people also seem to hate their family.

[bokchoi]

Ditto for me as well. I like having lunch with my wife at home during the week and I like picking up my kids from school and hearing about their day. I can't do these things on the days I'm back in the office.

[dogman144]

Ya whenever I read this framed as it’s just the basement dwelling techies wanting to stay in the basement…

Do people not have home lives they like, and don’t want the ability to build something widely robust there?

You’ll throw all that away, and the first chance available to do it for workers in idk, forever(?), so that we can all go back to… hanging with Brad and Barb at the office park more often?

Part of this is hard to grasp until you’ve got a house, partner, kids and hobbies that are home-defined (cooking, gardening), that all are worth spending time on, let alone the massive increase financial independence odds.

But also if I was 24, in an urban center, and could work from anywhere… that’s a wide wide open space to figure yourself out, like all the benefits of urban college attendance with an adult spending budget.

It’s a lack of imagination or an implication of a real sad state of affairs in your home/community like that you’d walk away from all that to hit the office park in Toledo or free cold brew in office in NYC.

Really blows my mind. Get a life outside of work! You can succeed at work without being in the office, for a very long time, until you’ll hit a job that the comp makes in-office an easy trade.