Silently Working Remotely

“It’s quiet for the most parts”

Self-image by author

I just sat down at my home work station.

But I have hovered over the station twice already.

No, it was not a deliberate effort to check emails first thing in the morning.

My work station is just 5–6 feet away from my sleeping bed. Therefore, my ‘hovering’ was simply me booting up, checking my half-cooked emails from late yesterday, with a big lukewarm glass of water in hand.

No urgent emails to respond to, no client calls scheduled. Okay, cool.

I changed laptops to move to my personal laptop. To write this blog.

Had it been the ‘normal’ (let’s call it older) times, these three activities would have been disbursed across my home, office and an evening cafe parlour. But because I am boxed up in my home, all these places have been deliberately carved in my mind palace while sitting at the same chair.

I can’t seem to find an answer to — where am I now?

Probably on my highway to a creative, progressive, energy breakdown.

The days keep raking up

Let me share how my life goes on currently. I bet, 90% of you can relate.

I wake up, get through my daily routine in around 2 hours, sit at my work station till late evening, ‘rise’ to just wrap up my evening routine, before finally going to bed.

At times, it is intermixed with an hour of physical workout or a long walk with my father, but come winters all these have come to a screeching halt.

Let it sink in for a moment.

Just think of it. Multiply this routine for at least x250 times and you have my full year 2020.

Except, that this still continues.

My work? Funny you asked

In the day job, I’m a business consultant. Therefore my job does not necessarily involve going out in the field and meeting people. At least not anymore.

But it doesn’t mean, I am not ‘meeting’ people. I still work with and manage a considerably big team, take meetings across 5 time zones and to top it up, I brainstorm solutions…