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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if folks who feel some big shift have kids?

I have two in school and it’s like it never happened, thank god.  I work in an in-person job which I prefer. Grateful I didn’t have an industry that stuck with remote work as I found it depressing and isolating.   My spouse does have some lingering covid issues but they’re managed.

It feels like a distant haze and I guarantee you kids and teens never ever think about it and didn’t feel some big shift to them. [/quote]

The shift isn't just thinking about the virus. My kids have been back to school and normal activities since 2021. It's the subtle shifts that were caused in society that we still haven't even felt the full impact of. For example, increased WFH, supply shortages and financial changes that led to inflation, people dropping out of the workforce (and now lack of workers in the service sector and healthcare), lack of trust in government, increased hostility, children who haven't ever recovered from the learning loss. [/quote]

All of this. Virtual school hit in mid elementary and middle school for my kids in dcps and lasted far too long. It was a depressing time and hard to distract them. I missed visiting a dying parent. So many others had it far worse.

While I appreciate work from home as a late 40s mom, I feel for the twentysomethings who’ll miss the social aspects of working in person, dating, crushes, happy hrs. It feels like a relic from The Office, but was one of the best chapters of my life (despite difficult bosses, low pay, etc.)[/quote]

Man, I relate to this post.  Everything but the dying parent.  I’m ready very sorry that happened to you.  It was my biggest fear.

This thread is so helpful.  I feel different too.  Our lives are different.  In many ways for the better.  But I do think it was really hard for anyone who was an older teen or in college.  That cohort seems to have really been messed up by the whole thing.  The adults were acting so badly, too, so I’m sure they think we all suck.  And many do!![/quote]

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