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