Take Me Back to Work From Office

March 2020

My life changed forever.

COVID affected all of us in different ways. For me, I had just started a new gig with a company I absolutely loved. Their office was in Santa Monica, just a short commute from my adorable apartment by the ocean.

Two weeks into the job, we were told to go home for just two weeks because a deadly virus was spreading.

It felt like we were living in a movie. We joked about it as we packed up.

“Okay, everyone. See you in two weeks!”

August 2026

I never went back.

I’m a video editor, and once companies realized they could save money on office space, computers, equipment, and software by having editors work remotely, there was very little incentive to bring us back.

And I hate working from home.

I have hated it since that day in March 2020.

More than six years later, working from home has slowly chipped away at my mental health. Some days, I genuinely feel like my soul is shutting down.

I am someone who thrives around other people. I thrive on conversation, collaboration, laughter, creative energy, and simply having other human beings in the room.

I’ve managed to keep my editing career going through all of this, and I’m grateful for that. But I struggle with the isolation every single day.

I live alone.
I work alone.
I spend far too much of my life alone.

I’ve lost my work tribe. My connections are scattered. I probably wouldn’t recognize half the people I work with if they were standing next to me in a room.

I still hate Zoom calls.
I hate Slack.
I hate feeling invisible.
I hate finishing something I poured hours of creativity into and getting little or no acknowledgment.

Sometimes it feels like I’m no longer a person at work. I’m just a name on a screen. A number. Get the job done. Upload the file. Move on to the next one.

I don’t want to live the rest of my working life this way.

I want a new career - or maybe a new version of my career - where I can be around human beings again. Where I can collaborate face-to-face, belong to a community, and actually feel connected to the people I work with.

I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet.

But I know I have to make a change.

My mental health depends on it more and more every day.

So if you’re reading this and you have ideas, job opportunities, connections, or know of a career where someone with decades of creative and editing experience could thrive around actual humans again, please reach out.