I think these kinds of community are really important. The modern work world where companies want employees there from breakfast till dinner with their social life built around the company, and downtown apartments too small to socialize in, makes it really hard on millennials. Covid hit that generation particularly hard. People need the free time and opportunities to build community outside work.
I worked in New Jersey, close enough to New York to be the home of the 24-hour career. We'd stay till 7 or later to score brownie points with the boss. When I visited customers in California, everyone left at 4 to go surfing! I'm not sure it's like that now.
Oh absolutely! Your words are so true. We are not meant to work 10+ hours per day, much less to stay in and around a closed office - no matter how nice and how many amenities it has - for that long. Covid did hit us pretty hard, the ones with small flats in big cities, but covid also brought work from home and for me the opportunity to move to a suburb with more green spaces around and more time to form a community.
My daughters have done the same. One moved from a tiny apartment in Seattle to a small town in Cdorado, working from home, and has been able to build a much healthier life and community.
The other works from home in Brooklyn, one likewise has built a community.
I didn't have friends outside work in New Jersey till I quit and started working from home.
I so disagree with the idea that we need to go "back to the office" to cure the "epidemic of loneliness." We need to promote civil community where people are!
I love how you integrate community action into this. We could all learn from it -- what we do for joy, and find others to do it joyfully with, can be where we start to change the world. (Oof, though the Superfund site. Not many people are aware of how many there are in this country.)
I love the watery journey you have been on, that its anchored in your childhood but expanded too and connected you with community. Happy to follow and hear of your adventures
I like the community aspect of your story, how getting out and doing something we like might also build the important blocks of a close community.
I think these kinds of community are really important. The modern work world where companies want employees there from breakfast till dinner with their social life built around the company, and downtown apartments too small to socialize in, makes it really hard on millennials. Covid hit that generation particularly hard. People need the free time and opportunities to build community outside work.
I worked in New Jersey, close enough to New York to be the home of the 24-hour career. We'd stay till 7 or later to score brownie points with the boss. When I visited customers in California, everyone left at 4 to go surfing! I'm not sure it's like that now.
Oh absolutely! Your words are so true. We are not meant to work 10+ hours per day, much less to stay in and around a closed office - no matter how nice and how many amenities it has - for that long. Covid did hit us pretty hard, the ones with small flats in big cities, but covid also brought work from home and for me the opportunity to move to a suburb with more green spaces around and more time to form a community.
My daughters have done the same. One moved from a tiny apartment in Seattle to a small town in Cdorado, working from home, and has been able to build a much healthier life and community.
The other works from home in Brooklyn, one likewise has built a community.
I didn't have friends outside work in New Jersey till I quit and started working from home.
I so disagree with the idea that we need to go "back to the office" to cure the "epidemic of loneliness." We need to promote civil community where people are!
Absolutely - this is the way of the future! More time and stronger bonds with our communities.
I love how you integrate community action into this. We could all learn from it -- what we do for joy, and find others to do it joyfully with, can be where we start to change the world. (Oof, though the Superfund site. Not many people are aware of how many there are in this country.)
Thanks Antonia. Yes, I want to celebrate to power of community!
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I love the watery journey you have been on, that its anchored in your childhood but expanded too and connected you with community. Happy to follow and hear of your adventures
Thank you Jen, and welcome!
Water heals, submerged in sea water this weekend, felt great ❤️
Thank you for the reminder that I need to get back in and under the water as well as on it.