The Inevitable Work From Home Cycle

A lot of changes have come from the pandemic, one of the most outstanding is the new work-from-home model that a lot of us have had to adopt. While some love it, others can’t stand it, and there’s a silent percentage that just can’t get anything done to save their lives! Let’s look at what the cycle is like when you have no office or office hours to be expected:

9:00 am – Stir out of sleep, feel bad about being late when you told yourself today would be the day you finally got your ish together.

11:00 am – Breakfast; because let’s be honest, when you woke up you just grabbed your phone and scrolled on Twitter for a half hour to catch up on who was recently cancelled, then to Instagram to look at your crush for a few beats, and then switched to Tik Tok where time ceased to exist until you jolt upright and realise you’re hungry.

12:00 am – You drag your feet to your computer, still wearing pjs and a bonnet. You open it up and connect to the internet. If you don’t go down the rabbit-hole of surfing random websites (because you have amazing work ethic) then you get to work for a few moments.

2:00 pm – At this point you couldn’t be arsed to lift a finger. The fried cassava you munched on a while back has now settled deep in your system and you find it hard to focus. You pick up your phone to scroll down your YouTube timeline and decide to lie down for a bit, might as well, if you aren’t working RIGHT THIS SECOND.

4:00 pm – You have watched all the movie commentary videos and have followed all the tea from the latest YouTube scandal. You look down and realize you are still in your pj’s; dizgostinn! So you get up and take a shower, then decide to go out for a walk. To stretch your legs, you know *wink*

7:00 pm – You get home and it’s supper time, you turn on the tv to watch news so that the food can go down your throat angrily, while you tsk at the state of what is left of this nation.

9:30 pm – You sit down at your laptop again, well knowing you have wasted the entire day and now deadlines are catching up with you. All through the day you kept rationalizing that the tasks left were simple 5-minute inconveniences. You are yet to find out that you were grossly mistaken.

1:00 am – As you frantically try to finish your tasks within the hour, you look at the clock and notice it says 1am. “That can’t be right, I just started here,” you try to convince yourself. You are yawning and your eyes are blood red. As you finish scheduling the last email for a more godly hour, you make it a point to note that tomorrow will be different. The first task of the day is best done in the freshness of the morning, no? You promise to start with a cup of coffee and a fresh shower, dressier clothes because experts say it puts you in the “work mood”. How can the experts lie?

2:00 am – You get off the laptop exhausted, and decide to re-watch a few episodes of Modern Family to help you sleep. You’re still scrolling on your phone.

2:45 am – You drift off, only to start the cycle again in the morning.

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