Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
I am a fully remote worker nowhere near my &quot;office&quot;, which is simply where our company is technically HQd.<p>I have never met my boss or any of my coworkers in person.<p>I do highly technical work, on a team that only hires very senior developers who have prior remote work experience.<p>And I can say, it is NOT for everyone.<p>If you do not have a life out of work, if you live alone, if you do not have a good network of real friends and&#x2F;or family, or what you would consider an area &quot;home&quot;, that&#x27;s a problem.<p>My problem?  I have almost all of those issues at the moment.  I do have a  work&#x2F;life balance, but I don&#x27;t do much with the &quot;life&quot; part.  My close friends have scattered as they got older, had kids, moved around to different states for work, and I didn&#x27;t put effort into finding new ones.<p>I can live wherever I want, but I don&#x27;t know where I want to live!  I can even move to Europe as I am a dual US&#x2F;Irish citizen, but I don&#x27;t know where I would want to go in Europe!<p>I have lived in so many states in my life already, I don&#x27;t have a &quot;home&quot; really, so that&#x27;s an issue also.<p>It seems great, but it comes with drawbacks.  I&#x27;m working on them, while working on work.