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Do you live in/near a big city? If you do, there should be enough in-office jobs there.

I feel similarly about remote but with a couple of differences:

- I'm not extroverted all, I still vastly prefer office over remote.

- It's not about socialising, I find the work itself much better when I can meet my coworkers in person.

> I find the work itself much better when I can meet my coworkers in person

Yeah I think this is an important point. I would still kinda call this "socializing" I think, but there's a huge difference between "just having people to talk about random stuff with" socializing and "interacting with the people I'm spending most of my time working with, talking about the things we're working on" socializing.

I am the same. Introvert, but prefer to work around people. When we started SimpleLegal, for 2 years we were just working from home. I ended up getting a desk at a coworking space just to be around other people. If for no other reason than to commiserate with others.

You wrote: <<If for no other reason than to commiserate with others.>> I do not see this expressed enough, and thank you for your comment. Yes, I agree. Even when I am pissed off by the "sea of mediocrity" a couple of levels back, it really helps to halve(!) my blood pressure by agreeing with co-workers about the terribleness of X, Y, or Z!

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