I travel a lot less for work at my new job. And although Allovue was always remote, we had enough people in Baltimore and enough culture of meeting in person that the last 18 months of work-from-home has been far more solitary.
That made this week’s work conference feel pretty different. There was a strange mix of “on” time with customers, some I’ve known a long time and some I’m just meeting, and “on” time with coworkers– some I’ve worked with for a decade and others who I’ve been working with for 18 months but never met.
It was like different batteries being drained in filled in different measures at different times. I was both filled and emptied.
I’m glad that I came home on Friday and have the weekend to regulate.