Are you currently working from home?

[Beebo Brink]

It took me a while to get over the guilt of not working constantly...

This is me. And I just cannot work that way, although I'm hyper aware that this is the expectation. I tend to work in intense, hyper-focused bursts of a few hours, and then I emerge exhausted and need a substantial break -- at least half an hour -- to gather up my focus to do stuff again. When I hit slow days in which there simply isn't much work, part of me is incredibly relieved and the other part is anxious that Someone will come along and Disapprove. Even though they never have.

Working from home was a godsend for my physical health, but it's also been great for my emotional health. I can now do my work my way, unobserved, and follow the rhythms that suit me best. Cutting back to 30 hours has also been one of the best things I've done. It's cut out all the fallow time that made me anxious. Now I'm busy enough to keep momentum going, take a break, then back to it.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Been working from home for a touch over a year now. I actually automated much of my work bench a few years back. Still keeping at all my stuff with very infrequent office visits to shift some cables around. For lesser hands-on stuff, I have a web cam pointed at my desk and I can ping one of a few people on Teams and easily walk them through it. =^-^=

One thing I learned (more confirmed, but anyway) over the past year is that I would get disrupted A LOT throughout my day. Blend together social anxiety, ADHD, and nearly hourly requests for crazy esoteric solutions for problems... It's a wonder how I got anything done. Now that I'm 30 miles away from someone knocking on my door, I can actually genuinely say that I'm literally ahead of schedule with practically everything! XD

Now I just have to resist the urge to slack off... more than I used to... (-_-)

 

[Veritable Quandry]

ahhhh, nice. Not often I've heard of lawyers moving in that direction... though I know a lot of lawyers do something other than law. This website definitely is disproportionately coders.

I have to imagine that if you can understand the legal code, Java is a piece of cake.

 

[Eunoli]

I have to imagine that if you can understand the legal code, Java is a piece of cake.

Silly, java is coffee, not cake!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have to imagine that if you can understand the legal code, Java is a piece of cake.

Apples to oranges... every lawyer I ever knew had great verbal intelligence, but quite a few get very queasy at anything that resembles math or equations... My dungeon master is a lawyer with an engineering background and can do both pretty well, and he has some funny stories helping his coworkers out with the more mathematical parts of law...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Apples to oranges... every lawyer I ever knew had great verbal intelligence, but quite a few get very queasy at anything that resembles math or equations... My dungeon master is a lawyer with an engineering background and can do both pretty well, and he has some funny stories helping his coworkers out with the more mathematical parts of law...

It's all understanding logical structures and relationships, and trying to make the pieces fit together properly.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It's all understanding logical structures and relationships, and trying to make the pieces fit together properly.

Yeah... I've heard contract law in particular is very "mathematical" and probably good preparation for coding computers.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I can now do my work my way, unobserved, and follow the rhythms that suit me best. Cutting back to 30 hours has also been one of the best things I've done. It's cut out all the fallow time that made me anxious. Now I'm busy enough to keep momentum going, take a break, then back to it.

That's it, exactly. So long as I meet deadlines, attend a few virtual meetings and respond promptly to voice and text messages, my time's my own. It's almost like being back in university in that respect.

(Fewer hangovers and less sex, of course).

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

(Fewer hangovers and less sex, of course).

Then you're doing it wrong!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Apples to oranges... every lawyer I ever knew had great verbal intelligence, but quite a few get very queasy at anything that resembles math or equations... My dungeon master is a lawyer with an engineering background and can do both pretty well, and he has some funny stories helping his coworkers out with the more mathematical parts of law...

There's not without reason the antique Roman proverb: iudex non calculat.

A judge does not calculate.