Firstly, I am so grateful for the opportunity to take my son to school.
But oh my god I am bored. A lot of it is due to my role, even when I was in the office, I am not part of a team. I am the only member of this specific department.
Haven't liked my role in a long time but pre pandemic I sat with some guys and we had some fun banter that made up for my job being rubbish.
Now that I am working from home, I am just so incredibly bored and demotivated. I am just on my own all day. There are no good bits (unless you count being able to do housework during lunch hour as a good bit). For me, I see it as life passing me by.
I do go into the office once a week and that is ok. But as you gather from this post, I am unhappy in my role anyway.
My other half has no sympathy for me. I think he sees me as being ungrateful.
Am I being unreasonable? Should I be grateful? Anyone else feel like this?
I am applying for new jobs, but I am worried that my confidence has been knocked from spending so much time in isolation.
It doesn't help that I conduct exit interviews at work. I see so many people leaving (staff retention is bad at present) and they are going to some amazing places. But they have a different skill set to me.
I am definitely in a rut and just reaching out to see if anyone else in the same lonely boat?
When I do go into the office once a week, I really appreciate talking to people, even on my commute. All this is lost when working from home. Surely we are social beings?