Extroverts, how are you coping with wfh for ever?

[TomelettewithGreggs]

I am an extrovert. Not the kind who has to attend large parties, but the kind who needs to see a few people. My job is now WFH for ever and it is driving me mad not seeing anyone the whole week. Especially with the long winter evenings.

Please don't suggest changing my job; I am in my 50s and would find it hard to find a similar job. I possibly need to change myself.

I live with very quiet and introverted DH and DS. Chatty DD has gone off to uni. Don't have many friends, and those that I did have appear to have become introverted themselves, or are struggling with the fall out of the pandemic. I have signed up for a bit of volunteering, but still feel isolated.

I'm in a similar situation and also in my fifties. I love my job but it is hard not seeing anyone. I don't particularly like half my team very much though so not missing them but did used to work part of the time in a hospital environment so would see patients and hospital staff too which i miss.

I did look into evening classes, but I don't have much spare money at the moment with DD at uni. The free ones aren't very appealing. And so many of them are online! I am really sick of online at the moment. Feels like I have been staring at a screen for my whole life.