Work from (not actually a) Home

Okay, let’s open……. LinkedIn maybe,

Wow, look at this person, he just completed a course in PowerBI, looks amazing to me. Well, I work in Petroleum Industry and rarely using that software, but don’t get me wrong, I work with huge amount of data every day, but visualizing data is not that important in my job, since the data is mostly raw and need further engineering analysis. Okay my job seems boring, and why we’re talking about my job either? Okay let’s scroll a little bit, and look at this another guy, he posted about meeting with his coworker, and why it needs such a long caption here just to tell shit about productive from home with that Zoom? I didn’t get it. Okay let’s scroll again…. and damn, why there is so much post about people completed an online course and telling shit about being productive? And not to mention that hashtag, okay don’t get me start with that stupid hashtags. I love data analytics, data science and that other stuffs (I really do like them, actually I learned all of them by myself), but really, you people don’t have to post every course you’ve been completed with that Coronavirus shit in your caption. Wait, why am I so pissed off anyway? Just leave it dude!

Okay, let’s move to… Facebook.

Okay, I use Facebook for 2 things. First, I use them to read news and articles. Oh, Facebook can do those things? Of course, as long as you don’t follow some stupid pages and not reading or writing comments about religion. Second, I don’t know what it is, can I just say shitposting? Okay, basically there are some pages posting about terrible meme jokes….and it made me laugh anyway, so I click like and shit then just got real. Okay, let’s see some news today….well, shit. Okay, mostly about negative oil price. I don’t like it. My job already filled with that conversation so I want to get rid of it. But it is just as I expected, some people don’t really get that and telling each other about “buying oil then get cashback” jokes. Damn, the negative oil price is already predicted in this early month, but probably people’s head are so open minded that their brain falling off. But yes, telling people about trading in oil market is not easy either. Okay, I open some meme pages and laughed my ass off, then find articles about Coronavirus again. It is about more people leaving Jakarta early to their hometown while our President already forbade it. There are some articles about fasting, but I am not Moslem, so I’ll just pass it.

Let’s open WhatsApp.

Well, I realize that my WhatsApp’s chat is filled mostly with my job. Since we supposed to have conversation with people in sites (I mean, it is basically office but located in some remote areas), so yeah, they don’t always stay in front of the computer since they need to monitor and be mobile. WhatsApp can be used just in several spots too, so if there is a chat from site, most probably it is important. No interesting stories either, my WhatsApp is quite boring you know, seems I need to look for girlfriend maybe? By the way, I have another chat in my WhatsApp, seems from church community. Oh yeah, I almost forget that church, sorry (I like that community, don’t get me wrong). Okay, seems people just share and talk about praying and worshiping God for fighting Covid19. Thanks, I’ll pray later! But not now, I’m not in the mood, and my brain is not either.

What again? Oh, there’s Line. Let’s open it.

Ok, not much chats, just 1 group with new notification, and see, they discuss about negative oil price again. Okay have a good discussion everyone, I’m out this time. My family use line, but seems no news from them this time. But don’t worry, let’s check the timeline. Well, again, so much posts about Coronavirus and work from home, especially about encouraging people to stay at home so we can avoid spreading the virus. Since football or badminton events have been banished because of Coronavirus, no much post about it anymore. But I still follow a lot of jokes official account, so no need to worry.

Okay, what anymore? Instagram? Wait I don’t have Instagram. Don’t ask why, I’ll think about it later…

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And that’s me checking my social media while taking my rest time. I started working from home a month ago. Well okay, that’s not actually a home, I can’t afford a house so I live alone in a small rented-room. Well, if you ask me if there is any difference between work in office and work from home, from my side, I said no. Yes, technically, it was harder. Using VPN? That shit slows down my internet connection, and bad internet connection is the beginning of the other problems, but neither my responsibility nor my task is reduced, so there’s almost nothing changed at all. Online meeting? No, it is still the same meeting as long as the people inside it are the same people you meet. Well, of course we are different. If you are a parent, probably working from home means you still have to get rid of your child as well, I understand.

But what really sucks me is it limit my relationship with the environment. I like small walk or run after office hours with my colleagues. Why? I don’t know, I just enjoy walking in the street with forest in both sides, that’s all. Running beside the sea in the early morning just to watch the sunrise? Well, that’s me. Listen, I don’t care about people in social media took hundreds of courses and posting each of its certificates in the LinkedIn while making a long caption with stupid hashtags, because I can still do it either. For me, this physical distancing, work from home, or a bunch of terms people make to have them lock themselves inside their home is bad not because it limits us from people, but it limits us with the environment. But yes, I really understand, if you are going out and have yourself sick and coughing a lot, well it is probably worse than negative oil price.

Well but what can I do about it? So here I am, working from (not actually a) home, take a small rest while looking at my social media — maybe roasting a little bit, took some digital courses, watching dozens of film and YouTube videos, and writing this shit in the middle of the night. I’m still doing my small routine workout like push-ups and others, eating my breakfast, and drink a lot of caffeine (yeah, I don’t know why, probably I’m stressed out). But really, I miss those days when I can walk outside and just breathing alone, and watching the sky lighten up by the sunrise beside the sea. Hopefully, it is not a long way to go.

Because this too, shall pass.