Working from home.
For more years than was really sensible I spent hours each day commuting to and from my job in London. I did it because I kept telling myself it wasn’t forever and I’d eventually get a nice job working from home at the end of it all.
As luck would have it I did eventually come to work from home, for about 4 years. It was a good experience in many ways but there was a downside - it was very difficult to maintain good separation between your own time and work time.
I’m seeing a very similar thing now with Dulcie working from home. She calls it her ‘dream job’ but she too is finding that it is very difficult to prevent work encroaching into time she wants for herself. She’s very good at managing her time (much better than I ever was) but she still finds that she is allowing work to take over what she had set aside as her time.
For now we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out but as I and likely many others have found out, working from home isn’t always as easy as we might have imagined it would be.