So I realized how much my human contact time has been dropping lately. Typical single parent with grown up kids I think. I am trying to get out more now that my son moved out, just hard because it has to be a special thing to meet people.
I have an assistant who works 30 hours a week and he is a nice friendly young guy. Just the conversation about weekends and his girlfriend are nice. However I realize that several changes in our department have reduced our contact. We all used to have multiple sites and have to come to the office twice a month to at least do payroll. We were all crowded in a really crappy room, competing for printer usage, and working on the same task. Now we all do this from our own sites. We also used to have a purchaser and met her for shopping as a large group. Now we each have a card, shop alone, and reconcile our own expenses. I realize now how much I liked just that basic chance to see colleagues 3 times a month without any special event or training.
I think I would never want to work from home and live alone, that would be too much isolation for me. In fact today I took a break, went to Starbucks and just played a video game on my tablet to get out and more human contact.