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For me, not having to deal with traffic and enjoying the quietude of my home is everything. If I had to come back to the office, I’d do my best to start my own company on the side and create a remote team around a product.
has bringing your work and any potential stressors home affected the "quietude of your home?" I ask because I have come to detest that corner in my home where I work - especially after a particularly stressful day. And I'm afraid it accumulates to where I don't feel "free" in that same room.
For people who struggle with WFH, a common recommendation is to create a space in your home for work, ideally a room. It sounds like you already have a space but if there's a spare room being able to close the door on that space may help you.
Beyond that... would you rather detest the office or detest that one part of your house? Maybe you would prefer it to be the office, but changing where you work likely won't change whether you have that reaction.
Personally, I have one PC and I don't have a separate space, but I wasn't any good at work-life separation when I was working in an office. I'd still come home and spend the entire night thinking about work, or actually doing work on the occasions I brought home my work laptop. I'm not exactly a workaholic (I'd prefer to not be thinking about work all the time) but I can't turn it off, even if my code and my computer are somewhere else.
whether I am on a roll or at a roadblock, I too can relate that I think about my code non-stop. Throughout the day, I have ups and down of "engagement". Therefore I try to time when I am in a lull and separate from work then. Sometimes it is earlier than a work day, sometimes its later. When I am still particularly active about thinking, I like to go for a jog at marathon pace or a bike ride. Something that preoccupies me physically while my mind runs around. Don't know how, perhaps by association, but when my body gets tired from running, so does my mind.
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