I met up with a friend last night. A friend I hadn’t seen in a year or so. We met during my first job at Schenker of Canada. Overall a good job, and one that talk me a lot about how companies really work. (Nothing like being the newbie gopher/right hand of a branch manager to feel the knives go in. Especially as many branches were merging into one, and everyone needed to fight for jobs.) Not fun at the time, but amazing experience for understanding my clients in later jobs.

I digress. My friend was from that first job, and she asked me “Do you miss the Corporate World?” My first response was to laugh, but then I realised there are parts I do miss. The personal companionship. Going out for dinner and beers after work. Birthday party cakes and singing. Watching another professional in action doing their job very well. The job of LEAVING the office for the weekend.

Almost all of those things I have working from home, but they are all virtual. So it’s not that I miss those things; it’s that I miss doing them in person.