I had wished for WFH, & I got it
Circa 2019, when the time spent on commute added grey hair to my 20 something head, I desperately wished for work from home. Only now I realize, work from home is nice. Work from only home is a curse. As work piles on, things that were so simple in a physical office to collaborate on, is a 100 times tougher. Building a team, architecting a platform in a conference room whiteboard. Dream of the past. The recent article on @the-ken about pandemic WFH troubles comes to mind.
While things get harder and the team reaches a stage of burnout, work keeps piling on because clients also have a business to run, and guess what the more than 1 year long pandemic has done? It has made it insanely hard for them to close deals. And the pressure always comes back to us (the software guys).
As an entrepreneur, and a business owner I have had to draw the line between between burning myself to the ground or taking a step back and staying alive for the longer haul. Nothing comes easy they say. It wasn't easy before and it is harder now.
As entrepreneurs, we don't like restrictions, and we want to keep growing, but turns out this year is a lesson on survival. If you survive, you grow later. I am not talking about the gazillion dollar valuation startups that seems to have zero or -ve revenue. (This only applies to earthly bootstrapped or humbly funded startups, what I call normal startups)
Anyway, the moral I guess is we will learn how to survive well for future crisis from this extended shit show of waves and lockdowns.