I don't miss the commute. I used to spend two to three hours a day commuting.
Since COVID, we have been fully remote, and it is working great. The efficiency of the team has improved. We deliver software faster, and the morale is better. It also seems like people are reachable almost around the clock. In the past, it was almost a guarantee that if you sent a message or email at 5:00 p.m., you would not hear back until 9 AM at the earliest.
I used to get up around six in the morning and drive my car to the train station.
Then, I would park it at the park and ride and board the train to Seattle.
Sometimes the parking lot would be full and I would have to find street parking nearby and run 🏃♂️ to the train to not miss it.
Then there would be a forty minute ride to Seattle. Some days, the train would be canceled due to mud slides, police activity, or other reasons, and it would be quite an ordeal to find multiple busses or special busses to get to work or get back home.
The train ride was beautiful, though. Most of the ride was right on the water.
Though after a while, even water views get old, and I would catch a nap on the train.
When we finally get to Seattle, it would be a short walk to the building I worked at.
Here was the view from my cubicle:
They since took apart our office space and repurposed it for something else.
I thought all of this was the thing of the past. But it was recently announced that we are coming back to the office in 2025. Five years later...
We don't know what building yet or how many times a week. All we know is that Seattle wants it's lunch money back, so we are coming back.
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