Ask HN: Is remote work killing your network?
I left the field entirely a few months into lockdowns. I pretty much went in the opposite direction, I now spend my time on explicitly social things.<p>I agree that it doesn&#x27;t look like it&#x27;s coming back - in fact I&#x27;m not sure if my city is coming back (London).<p>The growth thing doesn&#x27;t bother me, it&#x27;s just that the job is now pointless to me. I don&#x27;t care about shuffling pixels about, I care about actual people in the real world. Card games over lunch, pub at the end of the day, chatting shit, that was the point, the work was just a vehicle to give us the excuse and fund it. We are social animals, there is nothing more.<p>Something sticks in my mind though, which is that most software developers have a strong preference for just sitting inside. I was one, then I made money and I realised there was a world out there. But some of them just want that forever, and that&#x27;s fine, it just means I can&#x27;t work with them any more, that chapter of my life has closed, we part ways and so it goes.<p>It&#x27;s like a partner or old friend that you just outgrew.<p>Eventually I&#x27;ll give up on HN too I guess.