It suuuucked. Trying to drag my kids through their schoolwork. Anxiety about income. Anxiety about precautions. Cancelling plans, not seeing family. No fucking third spaces, not even second spaces.
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Worked from home, luckily I have a large terrace and live in a very green and walkable neighborhood. There's a botanical garden across the street that shut down for the public, but since I go there for a jog nearly every morning, the guards let me in regardless. Had the whole thing to myself.
Watched a ton of Netflix, perfected my bread baking skills, and grew a big beard.
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Learned to cook. I'm fortunate enough that my field remained busy enough for me to have job security throughout, and used the extra time to pick up a creative hobby
The creative hobby being cooking or did you get into something else?
Cooking, yeah
I built a computer and a wood shop.
That's weird, I can barely remember how things went down. My cell and laptop went kapult at the start at the pandemic and I didn't have a streaming stick or smart tv yet.
I ended up borrowing a relative's phone to keep track of the news, do online courses, watch videos and chat.
I started playing League of Legends
Now I'm level 450
Oops
Essential worker but not in the way you think, still had a lot of free time. We have a three year old now. Child of the Quarn born in December 2020.
Everything was pretty much the same for me, I still had to go into work every day, I just ate a lot of takeout and my husband made me wear gloves everywhere even in the dead of summer which was pretty funny looking back. I had no pandemic downtime at all.
I just worked from home. The main difference was when I was in pointless meetings that I didn't need to be in, I just played Animal Crossing.
I don't really feel nostalgic about it because it was so recent, but maybe I will once more time passes. It still kind of feels like yesterday right now.
Hell, it still feels like yesterday that I was in college, and that was 10 years ago. 😬
Nostalgic? It was awful.
That's how the question was worded.
Worked in the ER.