Have you enjoyed lockdown?

Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Some of them have, and there are aspects to it that I have enjoyed.

It hasn't been anywhere near as bad for me as it has been for many.
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Think a lot of people are confusing lockdown with working from home which is why the numbers are so high. It really didnt need to take a pandemic to allow a change like this, we have had the tech to do this for the last 10 years. Just hope it can continue, personally I have an extra 10/15 hours a week free through not having to commute, feels lifechanging to have that much more spare time.
 
No, and I always had the flexibility to work from home if I needed to. Never was it enforced that I had to 5 days a week though. Going into the office next Tuesday for my first proper day back and can't wait.
 
Has its ups and downs

my commute was 1.5 hour each way in heavy traffic and was costing me about £300+ a month in fuel, that’s gone into house improvements, I worked form home right up to lockdown then took an office job in jan. permanent working from home again now

all finance and cars paid off, reduced to one car 3 months before lockdown saving us £300 a month and one insurance policy between us saving me £400 for the year

as an introvert I’m more than happy to not meet up with people constantly

supermarkets quieter, I shop online for most goods anyway

but obviously massive impact on jobs and high streets
 
First one was OK, this one has been pretty awful and depressing.

In financial terms it has saved me time and money on my commute 50 minutes each way and about £200 pcm. I don't know what the future model of me working will be, I'm still WFH with occasional trips to the office (once a week on average), I'd quite like to be able to WFH a few days a week going forward but at the moment no long term decisions have been made. I'm a few years away from retirement so I don't have to think very long term and if they pish me off I can probably afford to jack it in.
 
Lockdown is crap, but has been 100% necessary
Working from home has been great, but I did this anyway, and will never take up another job that isn't WFH (if I get the choice)
Not seen the family as much, but this is only down marginally as not that local anyway
Not seeing mates, not going on holiday, not going to the pub/ restaurants and not going for nights out has been tough
Been much easier to save money due to not doing the above
Health and fitness have dramatically improved due to not doing the above
Not much has been different regarding work schedule, although people have been less reluctant to waste time at physical meetings which has been great
Not done half the miles I normally would
 
pros - saved a fortune and decorated the house top to bottom and redone all the bathrooms. spent tonnes of time with the family going for walks etc. finished my garden. saved a fortune on petrol and going out

cons - haven't been out for tea for a year. florida trip cancelled last year. drank 1000 times my body weight in red wine. miss family takeaway nights

been up and down for me. when the kids and wife (teacher) are at home it is brilliant. i can come away from my desk and talk to them. when kids are back at school it is sometimes a quiet existence stuck in the back office.
 
I wouldn't say I've enjoyed it, but it hasn't been too bad. As I'm retired, not financially stressed and enjoy my wife's company, I feel I'm much better off than most people. The main drawback in both lockdowns has been not seeing much of my children and grandchildren. Zoom has been a godsend in enabling more contact with distant friends and relatives than before the lockdowns.

The first lockdown was really boring until sport resumed.
 
Haven't enjoyed lockdown, didn't enjoy being forced to work from home. I now enjoy the flexibility in my role that allows me to work from home if I so chose.
 
I'll sound incredibly ungrateful as I'm retired with a comfortable income so really nothing to moan about, but I've absolutely hated it, all of it. For the first time since I retired I wished I was still at work, simply to give me something to do while stuck at home, even though I've had things to do while stuck at home. I just haven't been able to concentrate on anything.
 
I've generally enjoyed the opportunities that lockdown has created - Cycling, Art, Music but most of all, I've enjoyed not being a part of the monotonous daily commute and I'm dreading returning to it.
 
At times its been great how simple life has actually been over the last year. Dont think you realise until you take a step back just how much you get caught up in work and travelling all over for meetings etc which really isnt needed. Spent more time with the Mrs this year than the last 5 years combined, done more exercise than ever before, had time to eat better plus saved a fortune in travel costs. Shame its taken a pandemic to make businesses realise you dont need to work in this way. Certainly a way of life I will ensure I never go back to
 
The first one was good (even the home teaching bit) as I saved money with no petrol and car parking costs. My 2 hourly commute disappeared so my work life balance was great. I got really fit. No-one I know was affected by Covid. Loving life really.

Since Christmas its been horrendous. I feel so low. One of my children has had to isolate from his class bubble 3 times due to positive cases in his class. The other one has done it twice. Their motivation to want to sit on Zoom lessons is non existent. The Wife is in her final year at uni and is on placement at hospital a lot, and lots of assignments, so a lot of the childcare and running of the house is falling on me. And then my employer has just gone back to thinking its all business as usual, so pressure on the front is here that wasn't there before in the 1st lockdown. And finally (sorry if this is self indulgent moaning but I need to get it off my chest) but I sit here everyday and I'm convincing myself my house is falling down. I've got cracks in all rooms that have suddenly appeared (only small thin ones, nothing you could get your hand in), I think I've got a damp problem. My house makes clanging thumping sounds randomly (its.not the pipes) which has convinced me that I have major structural problems and if I have, I have little money to correct anything. I don't know who is the appropriate person to call and theyll think i have no problems and think I'm.crazy. So I just sit in this room literally feeling like the house is falling down around me. I can't stop looking for new faults and errors. It's driving me crazy.

So in summary....2021 hasn't been the big improvement i was hoping for so far!
 
Hated it, but it's had it's uses: PhD is due at the end of the month, and it's meant there's been little else to do but work.

When it's over, I think I'll have a new found appreciation for little things I took for granted before, like having a coffee out or going to the swimming baths.
 
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