Perhaps I said goodbye to the office many times in my life.
It was actually a tension building inside me, more like a dread when I was about to graduate from college.
I don’t want to be enclosed in an office space forever.
And the pandemic normalized what I crave: I don’t have to go to the office anymore–only when it’s super important, like regular and special meetings (because, you know, we learned that face-to-face collaborations work when appropriately maximized).
I like collaborations, especially when it’s before a deadline.
It’s an avenue for me to show my work, let everybody else share their thoughts about it, perhaps critiques for the better, and off I go back to my personal space.
Doing the actual work for me often means that I have to be alone in my head and be in the flow.
I can never achieve flow when I am constantly being talked to.
It kills the momentum I’m trying to build, resulting in a less productive outcome.
So yes, when I am alone working (not in the office, of course), I get a lot of work done.
And with all the output I’ve made, I’d be ready again for face-to-face collaborations to receive feedback from everybody else. Then I could go back to my space (somewhere outside an office) and iterate my work for the better.
jessa 