Hi guys! So after such a long hiatus from this blog (I actually targeted this blog to have a new content at least once per month, but something came up and that resulted in around 2 months of being away from this), I am finally back :D Finding some spare time to even take a look at this blog seems quite too much for me these days, now with the current pandemic that led me (and also most of people in this country) to serve Work From Home (WFH), meaning that I need to do my usual work from home instead of going to office every weekdays. This really made me struggling quite hard in keeping up with things, especially adaptation. Yes, I am not really the type of person who likes to mix my professional life with my personal life (one of which is manifested through only do what matters about work in my office and leave it immediately out of my mind when I arrive at home), but the current circumstances force me to, somehow, get rid of those separation and be well with it.
So that's why, these days may be quite hard for me to keep tracks on what I usually do. But, luckily now I am kind of getting used to it, and here I will share with you all about what I experienced, all its positivities, negativities and also how I personally think about this situation regarding this lovely period of Work-From-Home.
[Here, P stands for Positive and N stands for Negative]
Since, indeed, I'm at home, basically I am quite free to handle how I want to finish my work without the worry of being watched all the time. There's no such notion as the start of working time and end of working time per day. I may spread the working time each day much to my liking. The official working hours stay the same during this period, but I may work at midnight without worrying about not getting the last MRT train, for example. If I am getting quite tired of working in the middle of the afternoon, I may take rest quite a bit without needing to feel guilty over myself (as long as I do not miss any meeting, I shall be fine in doing this).
I may decide, again much to my liking, about the time in which I feel to be the most productive time to work everyday. Can be early in the morning, or in the middle of the day, or even during midnight. It does not necessarily need to abide by the constraint of working hours (except if what I do involves some other people, in this case I may need to adjust a little bit with the others' timeline). The only constraint I need to follow is to be contactable during office hours anytime people need me, which is somewhat okay and indeed this is how to be professional.
And this is somehow what I struggled with during the first 2 weeks of this circuit breaker thing. Somehow my time schedule was messed up and world seemed so upside-down during those time. One of the tricks to cope up with this situation is for me to make a somewhat rigid schedule for every working days, and also to keep track on what has been done and what has not yet been done. I am currently still practicing those stuffs and hopefully things will go right in the future.
This point is, somehow, annoying for me to notice and what's more annoying is that I may still have no concrete solution for this one. Everything just feels different and sad to say that I currently feel quite lonely, though not as bad as last time (it's long story though, but I can assure myself that now is still much better)
To get it more concrete, one of the positivity in this aspect may be that I can look around the sight of my home's surrounding while I work. This is somewhat calming and peaceful to see, though I am not sure if there is this psychological aspect that may explain this much better.
Honestly, there is no such definite answer for this particular question. Some days I feel awesome, some days I feel so terrible, some days I feel nothing, really. But one main point over this all is that, I feel that this is like none other days that I experienced earlier. The experience of being in the middle of the pandemic, being sacrificing my own personal needs of exploration to save people's lives, being working remotely for the first time ever, those are all invaluable. I believe this pandemic is also the first for almost all people currently living at this period (as I recalled, the last pandemic happened in 1918 during Spanish Flu) to experience.
Later, I may look back at this time and I will say to myself, that I was once going through this all and still survive and in a well-conditioned being. As always, there will be always lesson to learn from anything that happened, is happening or will happen.
Guess this is it, about my post for this time. I sincerely hope that this pandemic era will end quite soon (which may takes about several more months, or even years, I don't know) and that we may all find the strength within ourselves to fight together in eliminating this so-called virus, once and for all. Together we united, and together we can do it, for the better future.
So that's why, these days may be quite hard for me to keep tracks on what I usually do. But, luckily now I am kind of getting used to it, and here I will share with you all about what I experienced, all its positivities, negativities and also how I personally think about this situation regarding this lovely period of Work-From-Home.
[Here, P stands for Positive and N stands for Negative]
(P) More Flexibility
In my office, actually the way I need to perform at work is somewhat much more flexible than the rest of the similar companies. One of the examples is that I may come to office whenever I like, as long as it's before lunch (on the paper, it's said you need to come to office at 9.30 and go home at 7.00, but usually we come later at the cost of going home also later than that mentioned time). However, with this WFH implementation, the flexibility goes much further than that.Since, indeed, I'm at home, basically I am quite free to handle how I want to finish my work without the worry of being watched all the time. There's no such notion as the start of working time and end of working time per day. I may spread the working time each day much to my liking. The official working hours stay the same during this period, but I may work at midnight without worrying about not getting the last MRT train, for example. If I am getting quite tired of working in the middle of the afternoon, I may take rest quite a bit without needing to feel guilty over myself (as long as I do not miss any meeting, I shall be fine in doing this).
I may decide, again much to my liking, about the time in which I feel to be the most productive time to work everyday. Can be early in the morning, or in the middle of the day, or even during midnight. It does not necessarily need to abide by the constraint of working hours (except if what I do involves some other people, in this case I may need to adjust a little bit with the others' timeline). The only constraint I need to follow is to be contactable during office hours anytime people need me, which is somewhat okay and indeed this is how to be professional.
(N) Feels Like Working All The Time
Flexibility, however, does not necessarily come hand-in-hand with pure positivity. With the condition that I may work at any time, it also means that I may, at last, ended up working all the time in every single day. One little mis-management of my own time schedule will lead me towards the excessive working time and not being productive at the same time, which is surely appalling towards my own well-being (physically and mentally). Since no one is actually watching me physically for this period, the less productivity may also make them think that I may slack off during days.And this is somehow what I struggled with during the first 2 weeks of this circuit breaker thing. Somehow my time schedule was messed up and world seemed so upside-down during those time. One of the tricks to cope up with this situation is for me to make a somewhat rigid schedule for every working days, and also to keep track on what has been done and what has not yet been done. I am currently still practicing those stuffs and hopefully things will go right in the future.
(N) Loneliness
Another negative aspect of this WFH period is that you may not actually meet your friends or colleagues during days (and now, with circuit breaker implementation, at all). This is something I realised just recently, that I am somehow craving over other people's state of being. In the office, I may take some little teatime break to have some small chit-chat, live, with my colleagues about anything (recently the topic revolves around COVID pandemic but previously we talked about lots of other things as well). Now? The only option for having some rest is merely to sleep on my couch (or bed) or to randomly check over my socmed account. Zoom may be another option to talk with people, but the feeling is not the same as if I'm talking directly to them.This point is, somehow, annoying for me to notice and what's more annoying is that I may still have no concrete solution for this one. Everything just feels different and sad to say that I currently feel quite lonely, though not as bad as last time (it's long story though, but I can assure myself that now is still much better)
(P) Comfort Zone of My Home
Despite those negativity, actually there's another positive aspect of this WFH, which is to work in the environment that I am mostly convenient with; my home. Luckily my company allows me to bring my monitor to home as well, and so just a little setup over my desk in my bedroom and voila.. I got my working space ready in my own bedroom. This somehow makes me really comfortable in working, since indeed I am in my zone during the time I work.To get it more concrete, one of the positivity in this aspect may be that I can look around the sight of my home's surrounding while I work. This is somewhat calming and peaceful to see, though I am not sure if there is this psychological aspect that may explain this much better.
(ALL) How I Feel About It
So now, with all the points I described, how do I actually feel about this? Do I feel great, or pitiful, or somewhere in the middle, or what?Honestly, there is no such definite answer for this particular question. Some days I feel awesome, some days I feel so terrible, some days I feel nothing, really. But one main point over this all is that, I feel that this is like none other days that I experienced earlier. The experience of being in the middle of the pandemic, being sacrificing my own personal needs of exploration to save people's lives, being working remotely for the first time ever, those are all invaluable. I believe this pandemic is also the first for almost all people currently living at this period (as I recalled, the last pandemic happened in 1918 during Spanish Flu) to experience.
Later, I may look back at this time and I will say to myself, that I was once going through this all and still survive and in a well-conditioned being. As always, there will be always lesson to learn from anything that happened, is happening or will happen.
Guess this is it, about my post for this time. I sincerely hope that this pandemic era will end quite soon (which may takes about several more months, or even years, I don't know) and that we may all find the strength within ourselves to fight together in eliminating this so-called virus, once and for all. Together we united, and together we can do it, for the better future.
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