The benefits (and pitfalls) of working at home.

This pandemic is like a godsend to hermit types like myself. I have never had so much time for my hobbies, uninterrupted by contact from the outside world. On the other hand though, my classes are all online, and zoom lectures are very easy to ignore, and the piano is right there.

As much as I love what I do, I also love hopping between tasks every half-hour. Unfortunately for me, my hobbies are not my profession. Fortunately for me I’ve put myself in a creative industry, and so my hobbies have a way of giving me ideas for the work at hand. In all of this, I find myself wondering if it’s bad time management, or good time management. I get my work done very quickly, and don’t have to spend much time at all feeling stumped. Focused procrastination has always been something I’ve tried to practice (I’ve heard thats how ideas are had), and so the quarantine has really been a boot camp in balancing procrastination and productivity.

Oddly, I feel like the isolation has taught me as much as being in my classes might have. Altogether though, I have learned that being a homebody isn’t for me. I much prefer being in a room full of creative people than in a chat room full of them. I miss seeing my classmates work from classes I couldn’t get enrolled in. Or getting the occasional feedback by someone passing by. Or seeing the sun. But the sun can wait till next year, I’ve still got some procrastinating to do.