The more I think about it, the more attractive remote working becomes. Living with the effects of a stroke can make things become difficult for the most trivial of reasons, for example, bar work. How good would I be at things like collecting glasses, with only one functioning arm? And that is not to mention the angle where I come from a highly specialised background, and all those years of experience would then go to waste. And mobility – I am helping out at an Age UK thing this afternoon, at the school on the other side of the village. Only about 2 miles away, and yet I need to budget a couple of hours each way. Ridiculous! And the list seems pretty infinite. I had an email just now about somebody giving a lecture on something quite interesting. I’d like to attend but my first thought is “how can I get there?”.
However I can mostly hide the effects of my limitations behind a keyboard. I used to be very good, just at communicating with people – at the end of the day, I was a consultant so had to be good at communicating – and I’ve still got a lot of that. I’m slower with things like typing, but I use things like spellcheckers on emails, and when people see the finished result it generally makes sense; people generally don’t see that everything takes me that ittle bit longer. I see on Facebook that commercial grammar checkers are also available. So possibly this is the way forward?
